"Insensibly draw the soul from the earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason. There can be no nobler training than that."
~Plato's Republic
People often end up doing exactly what they told themselves not to do. The intention to suppress a response has the perverse effect of strengthening the response. Edgar Allan Poe described this phenomenon in, “The Telltale Heart,” and labeled it: the Imp of the Perverse
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