Eisenhower's Quitting Smoking

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Seneca said that even slave owners were chained to the responsibility of slavery. The body can't be in charge, neither can the habit. We must be the boss. He gave himself an order to quit smoking. Eisenhower's mother had given him that Bible verse. Like he that take it the city is not as great as he that conquers his anger. Right? And the idea that if you're master of yourself, that's stoic idea. That's the greatest empire, the Stoics would say.

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