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Lust

Lust may designate intense sexual or other desires. It is considered a vice by many religions.

Some moralists consider lust to be a corruption of temperance, in the sense that when temperance fails, lust is the natural result. In Christian theology, it is considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

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