City of God by St. Augustine & Henry Bettenson
Author:St. Augustine & Henry Bettenson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Theology, Classics, Catholicism, Christianity
ISBN: 0140444262
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-11-27T05:00:00+00:00
Even anger was defined in antiquity as being simply the lust for revenge,137 although very often a man is angry even with inanimate objects where the vengeance cannot be felt, and in a rage he smashes his stylus when it writes badly, or he breaks his reed pen. But even this, irrational as it is, is a kind of lust for revenge and, in a strange way, a shadow, so to speak, of the notion of retribution, the principle that those who do evil should suffer evil. Thus we have the lust for vengeance, called anger; the lust for possession of money, called greed; the lust for victory at any price, called obstinacy; the lust for boasting, called vanity. There are many different kinds of lust, and some of them even have their special titles, while others have not. For instance, one would have difficulty in giving a name to the lust for domination, though the evidence of civil wars shows how powerful is its influence on the minds of tyrants.
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