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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"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."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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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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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
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"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
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"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
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"The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it."
Kindness
"The physician heals Nature makes well."
Healing
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
Life
"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more."
Learning
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Optimism
"He who hath many friends hath none."
Friendship
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Desire
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
Wisdom
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
Friendship
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
Identity
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