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is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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is a thing some of us learn more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way. B. F. Skinner

is never such a clear-cut thing. When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom. B. F. Skinner

's principle use is to teach us to be masters of our passions, to control and guide them such that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all. Rene Descartes

is at the root of all the virtues and the sin-qua-non of moral freedom.

Self-control is at the root of all the virtues. Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

is capable of being as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

is a fine thing. A little at the right moment may prevent much subsequent compulsion at the hands of others.

A little self-control at the right moment may prevent much subsequent compulsion at the hands of others.

is the most important attribute of man as a moral being and that which forms a chief distinction between the human being and the brute.

What now is the most important attribute of man as a moral being' May we not answer'the faculty of self-control' This it is which forms a chief distinction between the human being and the brute.

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