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When passion, uncontrollable and blind, irrational and violent, is behind action, the consequences may be harmful to its owner but they may also be instructive--if he is willing to be instructed. For life is an educational process, which everyone has to undergo whether the pupils like it or not.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 152