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Conquest
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Epictetus
God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil
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Plato
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories
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Publilius Syrus
You will conquer more surely by prudence than by passion
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Publilius Syrus
He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph
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Voltaire
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce
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Ovid
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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