(13) However, for my purpose, it is enough to have
enumerated the most important; to reckon up the rest which I have
omitted would be more curious than profitable. (14) It remains to remark
concerning love, that it very often happens that while we are enjoying a
thing which we longed for, the body, from the act of enjoyment, acquires
a new disposition, whereby it is determined in another way, other images
of things are aroused in it, and the mind begins to conceive and desire
something fresh. (59:15) For example, when we conceive something which
generally delights us with its flavour, we desire to enjoy, that is, to
eat it. (16) But whilst we are thus enjoying, it, the stomach is filled
and the body is otherwise disposed. (17) If, therefore, when the body is
thus otherwise disposed, the image of the food which is present be
stimulated, and consequently the endeavour or desire to eat it be
stimulated also, the new disposition of the body will feel repugnance to
the desire or attempt, and consequently the presence of the food which we
formerly longed for will become odious. (18) This revulsion of feeling
is called satiety or weariness. (59:19) For the rest, I have neglected
the outward modifications of the body observable in emotions, such, for
instance, as trembling, pallor, sobbing, laughter, &c., for these are
attributable to the body only, without any reference to the mind.
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