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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Teaching others, he corrected himself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. ↗

— James Allen

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. ↗

— James Allen

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A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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