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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
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"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
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"Don't be your own devil."
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"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
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"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
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"Control your anger, be calm."
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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck."
Trust
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Life
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
Morality
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Fear
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
Being
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Self-control
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
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