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The point is not that natural impulses of the body are wrong--how could that be?--but that men have made them wrong. Originally the satisfaction of the pleasure-instinct was in harmony with higher will as a lesser part of a greater function. But now human will has reversed its role and exaggerated it to first place. The result is disharmony and disease.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 17