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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Robert Greene

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
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
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

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