Everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything…
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.[No si può avere maggior nè minor signio ria che quella di se medesimo.]
Whoever tries to destroy the passions, instead of regulating them, tries to play the angel.[Qui veut détruire les passions, au lieu de les régler, veut faire l’ange.]
The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
