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“I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.”

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The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

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Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man…

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“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived…

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“Any darkness that comes out in my life is the fruit of my own appetites, and it's my choice either to feed or starve…

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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

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Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are…

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“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.”

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