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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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Action Change Choice Fashion Person Personality
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.
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Character Choice Color Principle Soul Thought
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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Break Up Deep Flow Relationship River Step Water
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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Appreciation Disease Enjoyment Health Hunger Inspirational Sweet Tired Want
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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Color Soul Thought
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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City Defend Fight Freedom People Philosophy Wall Wisdom
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Achievement Children Ourselves Play Serious
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Awake Forget Ignorance Men
You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Discover Experience Explore Limitation Soul Travel
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Display Secret Stupidity
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Death Life Name Reality
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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Deliberate Fire Violence
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Competitor Control Discord Harmony Politics
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Character Creation Life Patient
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Children King Lifetime Piece Play

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