What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

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"When a man dwells on the pleasure of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger. From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction."

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"There are three gates leading to the hell of self-destruction for the soul—lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one should abandon all three."

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"There are three gates to this self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Renounce these three."

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"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is"

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"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."

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