250917 What I learned in my studies this morning 5

Today's Meditation(s):

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 7 

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.” (trans.?)

"...but some deluding power is holding me helpless against my will. Desire persuades me one way, but my reason still persuades another way. I see a better course and I approve, but follow its defeat."

(trans. Brookes More)

"Discretion this, affection that persuades. I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong- and yet the wrong pursue."

(trans. Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al.)

But a strange power draws me to him against my will. Love urges one thing: reason another. I see, and I desire the better: I follow the worse."

(trans. A.S. Kline)

"But now an uncouth maladie perforce against my will

Doth hale me. Love persuades me one, another thing my skill.

The best I see and like: the worst I follow headlong still."

(trans. Arthur Golding)

If this isn't my life. I know the right thing to do, and approve of it, yet still I do what I know is wrong.

But is what I fall short on a moral issue? Does it involve my true self and choosing vice?

Some do. Some don't. I need to learn to differentiate. And to use proper responses depending on the situation.