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Whereas the conventional good man seeks to leave behind only the gross and flagrant forms of sin, the philosophic disciple is much more scrupulous. Whereas the one is content to moderate the strength of his lower nature, the other tries to subjugate it altogether.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 169