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Marcus Aurelius on his father and temperance:

"...that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul..."

Between indulgence and abstinence there lies a middle way. #grownostr