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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."
"The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity."
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