Self-control is a temporary virtue.
It simply affords you the opportunity to develop more permanent virtues. Once you are virtuous, why do you need to control yourself? Let yourself be virtuous. That’s why you decided to exercise self-control in the first place, isn’t it?
You see, good self-control leads to freedom from the need for self-control; it’s task-oriented and once it’s task is achieved, it’s unnecessary. Self-control for it’s own sake is bondage.
