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The sense then with which is connected the habit of absence of

self-control is the most common of all the senses, and this habit

would seem to be justly a matter of reproach, since it attaches

to us not in so far as we are men but in so far as we are

animals. Indeed it is brutish to take pleasure in such things and

to like them best of all; for the most respectable of the

pleasures arising from the touch have been set aside; those, for

instance, which occur in the course of gymnastic training from

the rubbing and the warm bath: because the touch of the man

destitute of self-control is not indifferently of any part of the

body but only of particular parts.