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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Cicero, On Ends 2.34
Whether or not pleasure is included among the primary natural things is a big question; but to think that nothing but pleasure is included – not one’s own bodily parts, not one’s senses, not the activity of intellect, not soundness of body, not health – seems to me the greatest ignorance. Necessarily, one’s whole account of goods and evils must flow from this as its source. Polemo, and before him Aristotle, thought those things were primary which I have just mentioned. This was the origin of the view of the Old Academy and the Peripatetics, that the ultimate good was to live in accordance with nature, that is, to enjoy the primary gifts of nature while employing virtue.
Cicero, Lucullus 131
The Old Academy judged [that the goal of life] is to live honourably while enjoying the primary things that nature grants to a human being, as is indicated by the writings of Polemo, of whom Antiochus very much approves; and Aristotle and his supporters seem to come very close to this.
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