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And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.
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Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.
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And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow.
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Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him.
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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.
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For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.
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Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.