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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Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.