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And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures
Michel de Montaigne
Avoided
Conceive
Consequence
Epicurus
Greater
Pains
Pleasures
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