Pagina 172 di 734

But in respect of the peculiar pleasures many men go wrong and in

many different ways; for whereas the term "fond of so and so"

implies either taking pleasure in wrong objects, or taking

pleasure excessively, or as the mass of men do, or in a wrong

way, they who are destitute of all self-control exceed in all

these ways; that is to say, they take pleasure in some things in

which they ought not to do so (because they are properly objects

of detestation), and in such as it is right to take pleasure in

they do so more than they ought and as the mass of men do.