This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Steven Pressfield
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  3. If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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  4. Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. - Erich Fromm

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More Quotes By Steven Pressfield
  1. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

  2. A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

  3. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  4. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  5. Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

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