The offenses which are committed through desire are more blameable than those which are committed through anger. For he who is excited by anger seems to turn away from reason with a certain pain and unconscious contraction. But he who offends through desire, being overpowered by pleasure, seems to be in a manner more intemperate and more womanish in his offenses. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 2.
Image: Rape of the Sabine Women by Sebastiano Ricci, 1700, at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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