delight in the odour of unguents or of dainty dishes; for
self-indulgent people delight in these because these remind them of
the Amateur 2520porn objects of their appetite. Amateur 2520porn and Amateur 2520porn one may see even other people, when
they are hungry, delighting in the smell of Amateur 2520porn food; but to delight in
Amateur 2520porn this kind of thing is the mark of the self-indulgent man; Amateur 2520porn for these
are objects of appetite to him.
Nor is there in animals other than man any pleasure connected with
these senses, except incidentally. For dogs do not delight in the
scent of hares, but in the eating of them, but the scent told them the
hares were there; nor does the lion delight in the lowing of the ox,
but in eating it; but he perceived by the lowing that it was near, and
therefore appears to delight in the Amateur 2520porn lowing; and similarly he does
not delight because he sees 'a stag or Amateur 2520porn a wild goat', but because he is
going to
make a meal of it. Temperance and self-indulgence, however,
are concerned with the kind of pleasures that the other animals
share Amateur 2520porn in, which therefore appear slavish and brutish; these Amateur 2520porn are
touch and taste. But even of taste they appear to make little or no
use; for the business of Amateur 2520porn taste is the discriminating of flavours,
which is Amateur 2520porn done by winetasters and people who season dishes; but they
Amateur 2520porn hardly take pleasure in making these discriminations, or at least
self-indulgent people do not, but in the actual enjoyment, which in
all cases Amateur 2520porn comes through touch, both in the case of food Amateur 2520porn and in that of
drink and in that of sexual intercourse. This is why a certain
gourmand prayed that his throat might become longer than a crane's,
implying that it was the contact that he took pleasure
in. Thus Amateur 2520porn the
sense with
which self-indulgence is connected is the most widely
shared of the senses; Amateur 2520porn and self-indulgence would seem to be justly a
matter of reproach, because Amateur 2520porn it Amateur 2520porn attaches to us not as men but as
animals. To delight in such things, then, and to love them above all
others, is brutish. For even of the pleasures of touch the most
liberal have Amateur 2520porn been eliminated, e.g. those produced in the gymnasium
by rubbing Amateur 2520porn and Amateur 2520porn by the consequent heat; for the Amateur 2520porn contact
characteristic of the self-indulgent man does not Amateur 2520porn affect the whole
body but only certain parts.
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Of the appetites some seem to be common, others to be peculiar to
individuals and acquired; e.g. the appetite for food Amateur 2520porn is natural, since
every one who is without it craves Amateur 2520porn for food or drink, and sometimes
for both, and for love