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If both Pleasure and Pain were bad both would have been objects of avoidance; or if neither then neither would have been, at all events they must have fared alike: but now men do plainly avoid the one as bad and choose the other as good, and so there is a complete opposition.

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Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10, Section 2·384-322 BCE

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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy

Greek philosopher and polymath.

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