BETTER TO CONQUER YOURSELF THAN OTHERS

Better to conquer yourself
than others.
When you've trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph
back into defeat.

-Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

The Three Jewels of Buddhism