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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!"
"Don't be your own devil."
"Control your anger, be calm."
"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...."
"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
"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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"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."
"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
"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."
"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."
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
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