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The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice,
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.
