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Wisdom about habits.
What people have learned about habits the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
I exist as I am, that is enough.
The painter who works from nature should have a window, which he can raise and lower.
Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.