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Further, things which produce pleasure are either necessary, or

objects of choice in themselves but yet admitting of excess. All

bodily things which produce pleasure are necessary; and I call

such those which relate to food and other grosser appetities, in

short such bodily things as we assumed were the Object-matter of

absence of Self-Control and of Perfected Self-Mastery.

The other class of objects are not necessary, but objects of

choice in themselves: I mean, for instance, victory, honour,

wealth, and such-like good or pleasant things. And those who are

excessive in their liking for such things contrary to the

principle of Right Reason which is in their own breasts we do not

designate men of Imperfect Self-Control simply, but with the

addition of the thing wherein, as in respect of money, or gain,

or honour, or anger, and not simply; because we consider them as

different characters and only having that title in right of a

kind of resemblance (as when we add to a man's name "conqueror in

the Olympic games" the account of him as Man differs but little

from the account of him as the Man who conquered in the Olympic

games, but still it is different).