Sentences with phrase «dominated by the lust»

St. Au - gustine, while quite capable of asserting from one angle that every city that is not the City of God is merely an association dominated by the lust for domination, was simultaneously able to distinguish the nobility of an earlier Rome from the degradation he noted in the Rome of his own day.

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The goal can not be not to feel pleasure or not to be drawn by it (both pertain to the instinct of conjugality), but not to be dominated by its quest (which is the very instinct of lust).