We pardon excess of natural desires , anger and bad temper sooner than unnatural excesses . Those who are more given to plotting against others are more criminal. Premeditated criminal acts are worse than crimes committed in a fit of passion . Nobody who behaves with wanton insolence does so from a sense of grievance, but always with a feeling of pleasure, whereas everyone who acts in anger does so from a sense of grievance. Gratuitous acts of violence are committed with maliciousness .
Acts committed in anger are due to a grievance .
The incontinence concerned with appetite is more disgraceful than that concerned with anger, and continence and incontinence are concerned with bodily appetites and pleasures. Incontinence of bodily appetites is worse than incontinence of anger . Brutishness is not as bad as vice, although it is more alarming, because it consists not in the corruption of the highest part, as it does in man, but in the absence of it. A bad man can do infinitely more harm than a brute. A man who acts badly by design does more harm than the brutish simpleton.