“It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without ever being worsted.”
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Aristippus
Aristippus of Cyrene was a hedonistic Greek philosopher and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a different philosophical outlook, teaching that the goal of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself and by maintaining proper control over both adversity and prosperity. His view that pleasure is the only good came to be calle…
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culture · Greek philosopher, founder of Cyrenaicism (c.435–c.356 BCE) · philosopher · also Aristippus, Aristippus of Cyrene
Born 434 BC · Died 355 BC · Q189506
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