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The greatest impediment to living a good life is being a slave to pleasures.
Musonius Rufus · Lectures · paraphrase
What it means today

Pleasure itself is not the problem; enslavement to it is. When your choices are dictated by chasing comfort and avoiding discomfort, you lose the freedom to do what you know is right.

Try this todayChoose one pleasure to decline today, not to punish yourself but to prove you can.
Today’s questionAm I using pleasure, or is pleasure using me?
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