"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."

Cato The Elder on control
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"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on contradiction
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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."

Mencken, H. L. on temptation
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on cheerfulness
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"Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on temperament   

"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

Harris, Sidney J. on disagreements
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on talent
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"Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance."

Buscaglia, Leo on time
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

Lennon, John on god
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"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on women
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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

Herbert, George on failure
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"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."

Brookner, Anita on god
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"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on fortune
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on self-improvement
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on anger
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"When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty."

Gregory The Great, St. on blush
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"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."

Renan, Ernest on spirituality
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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on spirituality
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"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."

Shaw, George Bernard on kings
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"Enlightenment is a full, permanent recognition of what one truly is, free of all false positions, speculations and other mental encumbrances. At the end of a hard day trading, it is enlightenment that is the only thing worth taking home from the spiritual marketplace."

Oshana Dave on enlightenment   

"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."

Pavese, Cesare on behavior   

"To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suffering
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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