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But my opponents, though forced to concede in a manner these arguments because of their obvious truth, yet persist in calling shame modesty, cf.Moralia, 529 d; von Arnim, Stoic. Vet. Frag., iii. p. 107. pleasure joy, and fears precautions. No one would blame them for this euphemism if they would but call these same emotions by these soft names when they attach themselves to reason, and call them by those harsher names when the emotions oppose and offer violence to reason. But when, convicted by their tears and tremblings and changes of colour, in place of grief and fear they call these emotions compunctions and perplexities and gloss over the desires with the term eagernesses, they seem to be devising casuistic, not philosophic, shifts and escapes from reality through the medium of fancy names.
