盡管品格在很大程度上依賴(lài)于性情和體魄、家庭教育、早期訓(xùn)練以及伙伴的榜樣，每一個(gè)人還是有能力通過(guò)警醒的、堅(jiān)持不懈的自制來(lái)規(guī)范、約束和砥礪他的品格。
自制是一切美德的基石。假使一個(gè)人放縱自己的沖動(dòng)和情感，從那一刻起他也就放棄了道義上的自由，要獲得道義上的自由，即超越動(dòng)物，人類(lèi)必須能夠抵御本能的沖動(dòng)，而這只有通過(guò)自制才能實(shí)現(xiàn)。
Although the moral character depends on temperament and physical prowess to a great degree, as well as on domestic education, early training and the example of one’s peers, it is also in the power of each individual to regulate, to restrain and to cultivate it by vigilant and persevering self-control.
Self-control is the foundation of all virtues. Let a man give free rein to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he yields up his moral freedom. To be morally free—to go beyond animals man must be able to resist instinctive impulse, and this can only be done by the exercise of self-control.
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