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Aristippus

of Cyrene (flourished 370), founder of the Cyrenaic school, 3.116.

disciple of Socrates, but taught that the chief end of man was to get enjoyment from everything (hedonism), to subject all things and circumstances to himself for pleasure; but pleasure must be the slave not the master; good and bad identical with pleasure and pain; 1.148.

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    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.148
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