Our Bestial Natures

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.3.7-9 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): It is because of this kinship with the flesh that those of us who incline toward it become like wolves, faithless and treacherous and hurtful, and others like lions, wild and savage and untamed; but most of us become foxes, that is to say, rascals of the animal kingdom. For what else is a slanderous and malicious man but a fox, or…