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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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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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"On the virtuous man "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself."
"The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me."
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
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