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"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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"You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!"
"There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?"
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
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