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"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"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."
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
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"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."
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"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."
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"Knowledge is true opinion."
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
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"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
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"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"Necessity... the mother of invention."
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