Passions

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The passions may be in reference to either of two senses.

1. A collective term for pleasure and pain.
2. The more conventional sense of headstrong emotions.

Epicurus and his followers frowned upon the passions in this second sense, as they considered them unfortunate occasions when prudence and good judgment are clouded by inordinate and inappropriate pursuit of desires.

In his De Rerum Natura, Lucretius launched a notoriously savage assault on passionate love; nonetheless, he concluded the same book with a wholesomely Roman endorsement of marriage.