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D.L. 7.112-114 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
Fear is an expectation of evil. Under fear are ranged the following emotions : terror, nervous shrinking, shame, consternation, panic, mental agony. Terror is a fear which produces fright ; shame is fear of disgrace ; nervous shrinking is a fear that one will have to act ; consternation is fear due to a presentation of some unusual occurrence ; panic is fear with pressure exercised by sound ; mental agony is fear felt when some issue is still in suspense. Desire or craving is irrational appetency, and under it are ranged the following states : want, hatred, contentiousness, anger, love, wrath, resentment. Want, then, is a craving when it is baulked and, as it were, cut off from its object, but kept at full stretch and attracted towards it in vain. Hatred is a growing and lasting desire or craving that it should go ill with somebody. Contentiousness is a craving or desire connected with partisanship ; anger a craving or desire to punish one who is thought to have done you an undeserved injury. The passion of love is a craving from which good men are free ; for it is an effort to win affection due to the visible presence of beauty. Wrath is anger which has long rankled and has become malicious, waiting for its opportunity, as is illustrated by the lines a : Even though for the one day he swallow his anger, yet doth he still keep his displeasure thereafter in his heart, till he accomplish it. Resentment is anger in an early stage. Pleasure is an irrational elation at the accruing of what seems to be choiceworthy ; and under it are ranged ravishment, malevolent joy, delight, transport. Ravishment is pleasure which charms the ear. Malevolent joy is pleasure at another's ills. Delight

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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