549. Virtue vs pleasure

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549. Virtue vs pleasure

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At the onset of book III of Cicero's De Finibus, Cato the Younger explain the difference between the Epicurean and Stoic positions on the respective values of pleasure and virtue.

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549. Virtue vs pleasure

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