It is by controlling our passions that our head rules our actions. The great business of all is virtue and wisdom. I know nothing which should therefore be instilled into him by all arts imaginable. A man who allows his reason to check his passions will be more apt to think clearly. To the extent that we are passionate, deciding matters by our feelings rather than by our reason, we are irrational.
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