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When animal desires rage in a man, each satisfaction of them seems to be an asset, something gained; but when he is more awakened and freer from them he begins to see how much of a liability these desires are, how wise and prudent it is to check them and finally transmute them.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 185