If you have received the impression ([Greek: phantasion]) of any
pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the
thing wait for you, and allow yourself a certain delay on your own
part. Then think of both times, of the time when you will enjoy the
pleasure, and of the time after the enjoyment of the pleasure, when you
will repent and will reproach yourself. And set against these things
how you will rejoice, if you have abstained from the pleasure, and how
you will commend yourself. But if it seem to you seasonable to
undertake (do) the thing, take care that the charm of it, and the
pleasure, and the attraction of it shall not conquer you; but set on
the other side the consideration, how much better it is to be conscious
that you have gained this victory.