We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful. Atomic Habits

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Book VII

If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Day's Collacon

"The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. Baudolino