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A good life is impossible without self-discipline.
First of all it can be said that self-discipline is for the adults and for the mature although
not all, adults are mature nor all youngsters immature, for a person’s physical age
is not necessarily parallel to his mental age. Although it is generally true that
children are kept in custody by adults, criminals are restrained by authority, and
the deranged con fined in institutions because of their lack of the capacity for
self-discipline, it is not equally true that all adults as free men exercise self-
discipline.
One can also observe that animals, which live by instinct,
do not possess the capacity of self-discipline, which is, indeed, a unique human
trait. Yet, not all human beings are interested to exercise and develop this unique
human trait.
Author : C. Y. Jesse Chiang
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