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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.

Robert Greene

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Development Transformation World Worth 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
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
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
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
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
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
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
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
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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Blame People Try World
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
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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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Creation Position Thinking Worry 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
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work

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