Under pleasure is that evil disposition, the most varied of all the passions.
2In the soul it manifests itself as ostentation, covetousness, ambition, rivalry and envy.
3In the body, as indiscriminate eating, gluttony and solitary gorging.
4Just as pleasure and pain are two growths of the body and the soul, many passions grow from these.
5Reason, the divine gardener, prunes and binds and waters and in all ways cultivates the growths of dispositions and passions.
6For reason is the guide of virtues, but over the passions it is sovereign.
7Observe first that reason becomes sovereign over the passions through the law itself.
8Thus, if someone is greedy, when he acts according to the law he no longer uses unjustly what belongs to others.
9And if someone is avaricious, the law forces him not to gather the gleanings of the harvest nor the last grapes of the vineyard.
10In all other things we can recognize that reason is sovereign over the passions.