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I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

— Antisthenes

ἔλεγέ τε συνεχές, “μανείην μᾶλλον ἢ ἡσθείην.”

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§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13

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