"It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted."

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About Aristippus

Aristippus was a Greek philosopher from Cyrene and a student of Socrates who founded the Cyrenaic school. He is known for an ethical hedonism that treats pleasure as the chief good while emphasizing self-mastery.

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