{"id":512,"date":"2024-10-12T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/vincit-qui-se-vincit\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T04:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:31:17","slug":"vincit-qui-se-vincit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/vincit-qui-se-vincit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincit qui se vincit<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

"He conquers who conquers himself." Or as a cognate aphorism of mine has it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Self-mastery is the highest mastery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Self-mastery requires the mastery of both desire and aversion, not unto their extirpation as in Pali Buddhism, but sufficiently to render ordinate what is inordinate. The problem is not desire as such, but inordinate desire. Similarly for aversion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along the same line, and in paraphrase of Augustine,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The vicious man has as many masters as he has vices.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or as I say, with maximal pith and precision:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vices vitiate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"He conquers who conquers himself." Or as a cognate aphorism of mine has it: Self-mastery is the highest mastery. Self-mastery requires the mastery of both desire and aversion, not unto their extirpation as in Pali Buddhism, but sufficiently to render ordinate what is inordinate. The problem is not desire as such, but inordinate desire. Similarly … Continue reading “Vincit qui se vincit<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,115,316,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-latin","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}