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Again, the man utterly destitute of Self-Control, as was observed

before, is not given to remorse: for it is part of his character

that he abides by his moral choice: but the man of Imperfect

Self-Control is almost made up of remorse: and so the case is not

as we determined it before, but the former is incurable and the

latter may be cured: for depravity is like chronic diseases,

dropsy and consumption for instance, but Imperfect Self-Control

is like acute disorders: the former being a continuous evil, the

latter not so. And, in fact, Imperfect Self-Control and Confirmed

Vice are different in kind: the latter being imperceptible to its

victim, the former not so.[17]