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3 total sentences available.
"Binge eating and drinking brings heedlessness to man. And then his lustful feelings grow. And then his greed grows because what he earns is not enough for what he wants. And then he starts to quarrel, to fight, to envy, to hate, to hate because he has his eyes on what others have in their hands."
Source: tatoeba (12989152)
"Binge eating and drinking lead to heedlessness. This, in turn, causes lustful desires to grow. Greed follows, as what he earns no longer satisfies what he wants. Then, he begins to quarrel, fight, envy, and hate because his eyes are fixed on what others have."
Source: tatoeba (12989186)
A person who is absorbed in eating and drinking, who thinks that eating and drinking is the ideal horizon of life, and acts accordingly, who lives to eat, drink and live, that is, who lives in heedlessness, cannot restrain himself from lustful feelings.
Source: tatoeba (13074794)
Closest matches include abandon, absentmindedness, acedia, apathy, ataraxy.
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