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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"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."
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"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."
"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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