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- | ===== Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 9.5 ===== | + | |
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- | As to pleasure the philosophers of old expressed varying opinions. Epicurus makes pleasure the highest good, but defines it as σαρκὸς εὐσταθὲς κατάστημα, or "a well-balanced condition of body." **Antisthenes** the Socratic calls it the greatest evil; for this is the expression he uses: μανείην μᾶλλον ἢ ἡσθείην; that is to say, "may I go mad rather than feel pleasure." | + | As to pleasure the philosophers of old expressed varying opinions. Epicurus makes pleasure the highest good, but defines it as //sakros eustathes katastema//, or "a well-balanced condition of body." **Antisthenes** the Socratic calls it the greatest evil; for this is the expression he uses: //maneien mallon e hestheien//; that is to say, "may I go mad rather than feel pleasure." |
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+ | Source: Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights) by A. Cornelius Gellius published in Vol. II of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1927.\\ | ||
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