Notice also that children and irrational creatures
perform voluntary actions, but these do not involve the exercise of
choice: further, all our actions that are done in anger and
without previous deliberation are voluntary actions, but do not in the
least involve free choice Nemes.,
ch. 33.. Also,
if a friend suddenly appears on the scene, or if one unexpectedly
lights on a treasure, so far as we are concerned it is quite voluntary,
but there is no question of choice in the matter. For all these
things are voluntary, because we desire pleasure from them, but they do
not by any means imply choice, because they are not the result of
deliberation. And deliberation must assuredly precede choice, as
we have said above.