If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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