Marcus Aurelius Quotes

In Comparing Sins (the Way People Do) Theophrastus Says
that The Ones Committed Out Of Desire Are Worse Than The Ones
committed Out Of Anger: Which Is Good Philosophy. The Angry
man Seems To Turn His Back On Reason Out Of A Kind Of Pain
and Inner Convulsion. But The Man Motivated By Desire, Who
is Mastered By Pleasure, Seems Somehow More Self-
indulgent, Less Manly In His Sins. Theophrastus Is Right, And
philosophically Sound, To Say That The Sin Committed Out Of
pleasure Deserves A Harsher Rebuke Than The One Committed
out Of Pain. The Angry Man Is More Like A Victim Of
wrongdoing, Provoked By Pain To Anger. The Other Man
rushes Into Wrongdoing On His Own, Moved To Action By
desire.

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