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"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
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"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I " equally ignorant " do not believe [that I know anything]."
"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."
"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
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