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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
"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."
"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."
"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
"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."
"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
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"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."
"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
"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."
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