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1) The wise person therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: 2) they reject pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, 3) or else they endure pains to avoid worse pains.
Section 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC
(rev. 6/2023)