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He is most powerful who has power over himself


Seneca

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SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who has power over himself has power over his greatest enemy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO He who defines himself can't know who he really is.
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LAO TZU He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful...
MARIE MUHAMMAD He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powe...
LAO-TZU He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powe...
LAO TZU He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
LAO-TZU He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
LAO TZU He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still
LAO TZU He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. H...
LAO-TSE He can do most who has most power.
UNKNOWN The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the thing...
THEODOR ADORNO If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules...
VINOBA BHAVE He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from...
MUHAMMAD He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to ...
A.C. GAUGHEN He is most cheated who cheats himself.
DANISH PROVERB The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESEL He Himself is the Immaculate Lord. He who has created, shall Himself destroy.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...
GIACOMO CASANOVA He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
LAO-TZU God is our power and might and our most powerful ‘weapon’
SUNDAY ADELAJA He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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WILIAM CONSTANTINE It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command ...
RAGHURAM RAJAN The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...
CHARLES SPURGEON He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself
PROVERB The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o...
THEODOR ADORNO He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p...
GEORGE SOROS Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
THOMAS A KEMPIS The most worrisome aspect of Greenspan's European remarks is that he is in denial, and as long as th...
JUDE WANNISKI He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT He who fears something gives it power over him.
PROVERB Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Government all over the world are very powerful & also very rich,because each citizen has surrendere...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the powerful uses the power, he becomes powerless.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
UNKNOWN A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.
AMIT KALANTRI He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENES He has the most who is most content with the least
DIOGENES It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS I knew exactly when he came over by himself, something was wrong. He is the smartest kid I have ever...
BRITTANY DAVIS He is an American who has spent his professional life battling against government control over one o...
KURT SIMON He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.
VIKRANT PARSAI He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
THOMAS ADAMS Praying is powerful power.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a ...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
JOHN BOSWELL Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained
JOHN POWELL He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
HESIOD Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his exi...
VOLTAIRE He has the power who the majority believe in.
RAUPACH He who has great power should use it lightly.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
ERIC CANTONA He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
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DIRK KOETTER He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
LEOPOLD VON RANKE A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most powerful response to anything negative is no response at all. Great power is in the silence...
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ANTHONY CORDESMAN You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and ...
BASHAR AL-ASSAD When I looked at that young man, I saw someone who could have a second chance to rehabilitate himsel...
JAMES RICHARDSON Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
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LADY GAGA Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
OPRAH WINFREY The richest man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least.
GERMAN MUHLENBERG Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for ...
R.A. SALVATORE He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
LAO TZU He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty
LAO TZU He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
LAO TZU The only power anyone has over me is the power I give them.
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GABRIEL HEATTER More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man t...
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STEVE PREFONTAINE No one is free who does not lord over himself.
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