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For it is then that we have need of pleasure , when we feel pain owing to the absence of pleasure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed ...
For it is then that we have need of pleasure , when we feel pain owing to the absence of pleasure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed ...
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It is to show you that , if we were unable to scorn pleasure by the aid of reason and philosophy , we ought to have been very grateful to old age for depriving us of all inclination for that which it was wrong to do .
It is to show you that , if we were unable to scorn pleasure by the aid of reason and philosophy , we ought to have been very grateful to old age for depriving us of all inclination for that which it was wrong to do .
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But you may urge - there is not the same tingling sensation of pleasure in old men . No doubt ; but neither do they miss it so much . For nothing gives you uneasiness which you do not miss . That was a fine answer of Sophocles to a man ...
But you may urge - there is not the same tingling sensation of pleasure in old men . No doubt ; but neither do they miss it so much . For nothing gives you uneasiness which you do not miss . That was a fine answer of Sophocles to a man ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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