Posted on 11/09/2001 2:40:12 PM PST by boothead
" No other deadly curse than sensual pleasure has been inflicted on mankind by nature, to gratify which our wanton appetites are roused beyond all prudence or restraint. It is a fruitful source of treasons, revolutions. secret communications with the enemy. In fact, there is no crime, no evil deed, to which the appetite for sensual pleasures does not impel us. Fornications and adulteries, and every abomination of that kind, are brought about by the enticements of pleasure and by them alone. Intellect is the best gift of nature or God: to this divine gift and endowment there is nothing so inimical as pleasure. For when appetite is our master, there is no place for self-control; nor where pleasure reigns supreme can virtue hold its ground. To see this more vividly, imagine Bill Clinton excited to the highest conceivable pitch of sensual pleasure. It can be doubtful to no one that such a person as he, so long as he is under the influence of such excitation of the senses, will be unable to use to any purpose either intellect, reason, or thought. Therefore nothing can be so execrable and fatal as pleasure; since, when more than ordianarily violent and lasting, it darkens all the light of the soul."
I just report. You decide.
Have to post a picture, here!
Could be speech could it not?
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