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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."
"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"
"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"
"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."
"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."
"Only a changed person can live according to the law."
"Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit."
"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."
"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
Explore more quotes by Aeschylus
"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
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