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Neither, in fact, can they who are of this character sympathise

with their Selves in their joys and sorrows, because their soul

is, as it were, rent by faction, and the one principle, by reason

of the depravity in them, is grieved at abstaining from certain

things, while the other and better principle is pleased thereat;

and the one drags them this way and the other that way, as though

actually tearing them asunder.[2] And though it is impossible

actually to have at the same time the sensations of pain and

pleasure; yet after a little time the man is sorry for having

been pleased, and he could wish that those objects had not given

him pleasure; for the wicked are full of remorse.