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... pain . Every pleasure is in itself equally desirable , but we may get a greater amount of pleasure by one sort of action than by another . Thus Aristippus interpreted the somewhat ambiguous language of Socrates about happiness in a ...
... pain . Every pleasure is in itself equally desirable , but we may get a greater amount of pleasure by one sort of action than by another . Thus Aristippus interpreted the somewhat ambiguous language of Socrates about happiness in a ...
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... pain . The mind must be trained by philosophy to estimate and compare pleasures and pains , to master its impulses where their indulgence would lead to an overplus of pain , to be able promptly to discern and to act upon the ...
... pain . The mind must be trained by philosophy to estimate and compare pleasures and pains , to master its impulses where their indulgence would lead to an overplus of pain , to be able promptly to discern and to act upon the ...
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... pain than pleasure , the aim of the wise man should be not to obtain pleasure , but to steel himself against pain . Thus in the end the Cyrenaic doctrine blends with the Cynic . Plato ' , the ' deus philosophorum ' ( Cic . N. D. 11 32 ) ...
... pain than pleasure , the aim of the wise man should be not to obtain pleasure , but to steel himself against pain . Thus in the end the Cyrenaic doctrine blends with the Cynic . Plato ' , the ' deus philosophorum ' ( Cic . N. D. 11 32 ) ...
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... pain . He that drinks only escapes the pain of thirst for the moment , but he who has become conscious of mental emptiness and feels himself replenished by instruction , is nourished by a food more real and true . Further even the ...
... pain . He that drinks only escapes the pain of thirst for the moment , but he who has become conscious of mental emptiness and feels himself replenished by instruction , is nourished by a food more real and true . Further even the ...
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... pain , but it is only to bring out good in the end . Man has no right to harm for the sake of harming . This is the opposite of the old Greek view that the true manly character was shown in the power and will to favour friends and ...
... pain , but it is only to bring out good in the end . Man has no right to harm for the sake of harming . This is the opposite of the old Greek view that the true manly character was shown in the power and will to favour friends and ...
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