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“Pleasure is so instantaneous a sensation, that it cannot be conceived divisible or incomplete; the longest continued Pleasure is only a succession of single sparks, so rapid as to give the appearance of a stream, of light.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Section 11·384-322 BCE

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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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