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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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"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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"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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"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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Personal Development
"Control your anger, be calm."
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Personal Development
"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."
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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
Experience
"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
Truth
"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
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
Life
"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
Courage
"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
Man
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
Life
"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
Truth
"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
Self-control
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
People
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