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Again, as many terms are used in the way of similitude, so people

have come to talk of the Self-Control of the man of Perfected

Self-Mastery in the way of similitude: for the man of

Self-Control and the man of Perfected Self-Mastery have this in

common, that they do nothing against Right Reason on the impulse

of bodily pleasures, but then the former has bad desires, the

latter not; and the latter is so constituted as not even to feel

pleasure contrary to his Reason, the former feels but does not

yield to it.

Like again are the man of Imperfect Self-Control and he who is

utterly destitute of it, though in reality distinct: both follow

bodily pleasures, but the latter under a notion that it is the

proper line for him to take, his former without any such notion.