A passage from Cicero
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.17
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Great is the power of habit.
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Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.
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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
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If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.