Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.
To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
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