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Otherwise how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden foods we abstain from the pleasure to be had from them? Is it not because reason is able to rule over appetites? I for one think so.
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Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires.
32
Some desires are mental, others are physical, and reason obviously rules over both.
33
Otherwise how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden foods we abstain from the pleasure to be had from them? Is it not because reason is able to rule over appetites? I for one think so.
34
Therefore when we crave seafood and fowl and animals and all sorts of foods that are forbidden to us by the law, we abstain because of domination by reason.
35
For the emotions of the appetites are restrained, checked by the temperate mind, and all the impulses of the body are bridled by reason.
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