You may be unconquerable, if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own power to conquer.
For habit is first weakened and then entirely destroyed.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The greatest victory is not over external empires, but over one's own turbulent thoughts.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by your own nature is of all things most shameful and vile.
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