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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
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"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
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"Control your anger, be calm."
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"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."
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"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
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"Don't be your own devil."
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"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
History
"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
Courage
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
Life
"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
Relationship
"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
Love
"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
Truth
"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
Man
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
Life
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
People
"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
Truth
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