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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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"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."
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Explore more quotes by Aristotle
"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
Economy
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Friendship
"The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole."
Literature
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Education
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
Fiction
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
Friendship
"Man is by nature a civic animal."
Society
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
Integrity
"Hope is a waking dream."
Hope
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