An idea from The Consolation of Philosophy

Doing wrong changes what you are. A thief turns into a wolf, a cheat into a fox, a hothead into a lion. In the old story, Circe’s potion changed sailors into pigs but left their minds alone. Vice works the other way round, on the mind.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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