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Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.
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If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.
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Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.
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No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!