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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...."
"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!"
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"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."
"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
"Don't be your own devil."
"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
"Control your anger, be calm."
"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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"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
"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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