237. We must also guard against the motions of our
soul. The soul must always watch and look after itself, so as to
guard itself against itself. For there are motions in which there
is a kind of passion that breaks forth as it were in a sort of
rush. Wherefore in Greek it is called ὁρμή, because it comes out suddenly with
some force. In these there lies no slight force of soul or of
nature. Its force, however, is twofold: on the one side it
rests on passion, on the other on reason, which checks passion, and
makes it obedient to itself, and leads it whither it will; and trains
it by careful teaching to know what ought to be done, and what ought to
be avoided, so as to make it submit to its kind tamer.