A helpful precept, when one is failing in some crucial undertaking from

his very over-anxiety to succeed, is to replace the ambition to succeed
by a determination to pass the crisis unruffled, whether one succeeds or
fails, 'He that ruleth himself is greater than he that taketh a city,'
and incidentally if we rule ourselves we are far more likely than
otherwise to take the city, if that be possible at all
A helpful precept, when one is failing in some crucial undertaking from
his very over-anxiety to succeed, is to replace the ambition to succeed
by a determination to pass the crisis unruffled, whether one succeeds or
fails, 'He that ruleth himself is greater than he that taketh a city,'
and incidentally if we rule ourselves we are far more likely than
otherwise to take the city, if that be possible at all.