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“The man of Self-Control, knowing his lusts to be wrong, refuses, by the influence of reason, to follow their suggestions.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7, Section 1·384-322 BCE
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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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