Marcus Aurelius on pleasure

It amazes me how the ancients knew about the harmful effects of indulging in pleasure , while the modern man is brainwashed to believe it is happiness ...
" ....Theophrastus says that offences of lust are graver than those of anger: because it is clearly some sort of pain and involuntary spasm which drives the angry man to abandon reason, whereas the lust-led offender has given in to pleasure and seems somehow abandoned and less manly in his wrongdoing. "