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> [“The first and best victory is to conquer self”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-first-and-best-victory-is-to-conquer-self/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-hill/if-you-do-not-conquer-self-you-will-be-conquered-by-self/)

[Napoleon Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-hill/)

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> [Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-oswald-sanders/before-we-can-conquer-the-world-we-must-first-conquer-the-self/)

[J. Oswald Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-oswald-sanders/)

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> [The first and the best victory is to conquer self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-first-and-the-best-victory-is-to-conquer-self/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [“First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/first-and-best-victory-is-to-conquer-self-to-be-conquered-by-self-is/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-first-and-best-victory-is-to-conquer-self-to-be-conquered-by-self/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/i-also-would-like-to-look-and-smile-sit-and-walk-like-that-so-free-so/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [“I have never seen a man look and smile, sit and walk like that, he thought. I, also, would like to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/i-have-never-seen-a-man-look-and-smile-sit-and-walk-like-that-he/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-hill/discipline-comes-through-self-control-this-means-that-you-must/)

[Napoleon Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-hill/)

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