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  • March 14, 2013
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These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish

No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right […]

  • November 18, 2011
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A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the […]