240103 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

She was appointed
Lady queen of midnight spice,
A sultry melange.

Today's Meditation(s):

Impulsive passions aren't as bad as passions driven by desire, Marcus tells me in Meditations 2.10.

Someone swept up by a sudden rage, overcome by a passion they could not check, is less culpable than a person who, under the spell of desire, purposefully arranges all the vicious machinations necessary to perpetrate their sin.

Oh, what a sinner am I.