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Lectures and Fragments · Fragment 24
Musonius Rufus · Fragments

Fragment 24

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If one were to measure what is agreeable by the standard of pleasure, nothing would be pleasanter than self-control; and if one were to measure what is to be avoided by pain, nothing would be more painful than lack of self-control.1

Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Fragments, Fragment 24, translated by Cora E. Lutz (1947). The Stoic Library.