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In pleasure there exists even a malevolent tendency, which is the most complex of all the emotions.
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In the soul it is boastfulness, covetousness, thirst for honor, rivalry, and malice;
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in the body, indiscriminate eating, gluttony, and solitary gormandizing.
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Just as pleasure and pain are two plants growing from the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these plants,
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each of which the master cultivator, reason, weeds and prunes and ties up and waters and thoroughly irrigates, and so tames the jungle of habits and emotions.
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