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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"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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"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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Personal Development
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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Personal Development
"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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"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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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Leadership
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
Politics
"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I " equally ignorant " do not believe [that I know anything]."
Knowledge
"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
Duty
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
Excellence
"Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
War
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Humor
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
Wisdom
"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."
Philosophy
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