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Added quotes from Pythagoras, Aristotle, Helmut Stellrecht, and unknown.
authorZeno <telometto@protonmail.com>
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:35:53 +0000 (16:35 +0100)
committerShlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Thu, 2 Dec 2021 06:48:17 +0000 (08:48 +0200)
fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie

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@@ -5717,3 +5717,26 @@ but it is by no means the most interesting.
 “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
                -- Alexis Carrel
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+"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
+               -- Aristotle
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+"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."
+               -- Pythagoras
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+"No man is free who cannot control himself"
+               -- Pythagoras
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+"If you control yourself, you control life. You should not give in to every
+little problem. Be open, be determined, never play the cripple, but control
+yourself. Be the master of your pain and problems. Force yourself to be
+cheerfully faithful. Then you will find strength you did not know you had.
+Command yourself so that you can master yourself. Do something every day
+that you do not like to do, and avoid doing something every day that you
+would gladly have done. That is the secret of every great personality."
+               -- Helmut Stellrecht
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+A secure family is a nation's strength.
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+Don't rely on motivation for anything - it is fleeting and unreliable.
+Discipline, however, is unyielding - force youself to follow through.
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