Those who rate pleasure as the supreme ideal hold that the Good is a matter of the senses; but we Stoics maintain that it is a matter of the understanding, and we assign it to the mind.
If the senses were to pass judgment on what is good, we should never reject any pleasure; for there is no pleasure that…
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