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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

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The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

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A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

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