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And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.
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In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
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In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.
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As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.
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And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.