Habit and Discipline

Axis: habit as the builder of virtue, faith, and work — or custom the tyrant,
to be arraigned before the court of reason.

Habit builds the person

Franklin (franklin) — bad habits must be broken and good ones acquired: virtue is a habit, method in place of impulse. Grounding: dobrodetel-kak-navyk, tsepochka-privychki, metod-vmesto-poryva.
Pascal (pascal) — we are automaton as much as mind: faith enters through habit and action, not through proof alone. Grounding: vera-vkhodit-cherez-privychku, avtomat-i-ubezhdenie, obychay-i-privychka.
Epictetus (epictetus) — three disciplines — of desire, of impulse, of assent: daily exercise, philosophy is deeds, not words. Grounding: tri-distsipliny, distsiplina-zhelaniya, filosofiya-eto-dela-ne-slova.
Ignatius Loyola (ignatius) — exercise by timetable, repetition, and examination of conscience: affections are ordered on demand, firmness quenches temptation. Grounding: dukhovnye-uprazhneniya, povtorenie, tverdost-gasit-iskushenie.
Confucius (confucius) — ritual and learning are the form that educates: li without inner effort is not li. Grounding: li, ritual-i-forma, uchenie.

The discipline of small things and of accounts

Smiles (smiles) — strength lies in small things: success is made of trifles; work and thrift educate character. Grounding: sila-v-malom, put-berezhlivosti, trud-vospityvaet.
Rockefeller (rockefeller) — the discipline of detail and of the ledger: to know your books is to stop hiding from the truth about yourself. Grounding: discipline-of-detail, uchet-est-chestnost-pered-soboj.
Hill (hill) — the habit of saving and self-control: the drop wears away the stone, the mind is programmed by repetition. Grounding: habit-of-saving, self-control, um-programmiruetsya-samovnusheniem.

Habit the tyrant

Montaigne (montaigne) — custom is no argument: familiarity passes itself off as truth; measure by reason, not by habit. Grounding: tiraniya-obychaya, obychay-ne-dovod, meryay-razumom-a-ne-privychkoy.
La Rochefoucauld (larochefoucauld) — the exercise of virtue polishes the costume of amour-propre without changing its wearer. Grounding: dobrodeteli-pereodetye-poroki, litsemerie.
Laozi (laozi) — timetable and form do violence to what grows of itself: non-action against training by drill. Grounding: wuwei, pu.

Axis of dispute: Franklin and Confucius against Montaigne and Laozi — form
educates against custom the tyrant and the self-so; Pascal against the
rationalists — habit as the door of faith; La Rochefoucauld against the whole
camp of discipline — habit changes the costume, not the motive.