But the fourth is when thou shalt reproach thyself for anything, for this is an evidence of the diviner part within thee being overpowered and yielding to the less honorable and to the perishable part, the body, and to its gross pleasures (iv. 24; ii. 16).
From his personal reflections, on the nature of self-reproach as a sign of the soul's struggle against bodily desires.
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