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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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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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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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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"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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"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Success
"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."
Morality
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Education
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
Integrity
"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."
Religion
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
Illusion
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Integrity
"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
Conversation
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself."
Peace
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