What controls your aversions and desires controls you. And if that person is not you, it doesn't matter how strong you are, how rich you are, how famous you are, how powerful you are, you are a slave.
Odysius in his odyssey is a reflection of the human undergoing any kind of ordeal, battling their sort of higher self and lower self, you know, the perils of hubris, the impossibility of ever returning home.
Gouverneur Morris would say that underneath Washington's calm demeanor was in fact incredible passions, and that his first and perhaps his greatest victory was not on the battlefield, but over these very passions.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
