“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

—  Gautama Buddha

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philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BC

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