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Just so the unjust man, and he who has lost all self-control,

might originally have helped being what they are, and so they are

voluntarily what they are; but now that they are become so they

no longer have the power of being otherwise.

And not only are mental diseases voluntary, but the bodily are so

in some men, whom we accordingly blame: for such as are naturally

deformed no one blames, only such as are so by reason of want of

exercise, and neglect: and so too of weakness and maiming: no one

would think of upbraiding, but would rather compassionate, a man

who is blind by nature, or from disease, or from an accident; but

every one would blame him who was so from excess of wine, or any

other kind of intemperance. It seems, then, that in respect of

bodily diseases, those which depend on ourselves are censured,

those which do not are not censured; and if so, then in the case

of the mental disorders, those which are censured must depend

upon ourselves.