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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

Robert Greene

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
ROBERT GREENE

Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Attention Experience Learning Lesson Moments Pay Wasted Time Yourself
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Happiness Right Talk Yourself
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself

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