(8) Lastly, a timid man does that which he would not.
(E48:9) For though an avaricious man should, for the sake of avoiding
death, cast his riches into the sea, he will none the less remain
avaricious; so, also, if a lustful man is downcast, because he
cannot follow his bent, he does not, on the ground of abstention,
cease to be lustful. (10) In fact, these emotions are not so much
concerned with the actual feasting, drinking, &c., as with the
appetite and love of such. (E48:11) Nothing, therefore, can be opposed
to these emotions, but high-mindedness and valour, whereof I will speak
presently.
(E48:12) The definitions of jealousy and other waverings of the mind I
pass over in silence, first, because they arise from the compounding
of the emotions already described; secondly, because many of them have
no distinctive names, which shows that it is sufficient for practical
purposes to have merely a general knowledge of them. (13) However, it
is established from the definitions of the emotions, which we have set
forth, that they all spring from desire, pleasure, or pain, or, rather,
that there is nothing besides these three; wherefore each is wont to be
called by a variety of names in accordance with its various relations
and extrinsic tokens. (E48:14) If we now direct our attention to these
primitive emotions, and to what has been said concerning the nature of
the mind, we shall be able thus to define the emotions, in so far as
they are referred to the mind only.
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