A morally weak man is the kind of person who pursues bodily pleasure to excess and contrary to right reason, though he is not presuaded (that he ought to do so); the self-indulgent, on the other hand, is persuaded to pursue them because he is the kind of man who does so.
—Let’s see what else I highlighted in Nicomachean Ethics twelve years ago.
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