He who gainsa

He who gainsa
He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.
  

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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.
I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.
Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.