Excerpt from Self-Control and How to Secure It: L'education De Soi-Meme "Man is the only animal who does not know how to live," I said one day after listening to the grievances of my patients. It was not their suffering that called forth this irreverent dictum - irony would have been hateful - it was the frequent assurance that they were the authors of their own misfortunes; and not always they alone, but their relatives and their fellow men. Far be it from me to reproach those who suffer; by what right shall we judge others? But, on examining the circumstances surrounding these unfortunates, I have often said to myself: "All this need not have been and should no longer be possible." A colleague to whom I submitted these reflections - commonplace by reason of being old and true subscribed to my opinion, but immediately hinted that my ideas applied only to those nervous patients who since the discovery of neurasthenia crowd the physician's office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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