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• He conquers who endures. -- Perseu
• He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confuciu
• Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.
  He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner....
• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Ye
  but if we have such another victory, we are undone....
• To him nothing is impossible, who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. -- Carlyle
• The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him.
  To ride their horses and take away their possessions....
• Who does i' the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain's captai
  and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him....