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Life of Demonax (20-21)

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Asked for a definition of Happiness, he said that only the free was happy. Well,’ said the questioner, there is no lack of free men.’ I count no man free who is subject to hopes and fears.’—' You ask impossibilities; of these two we are all very much the slaves.’ Once grasp the nature of human affairs,’ said Demonax, and you will find that they justify neither hope nor fear, since both pain and pleasure are to have an end.’

Peregrine Proteus was shocked at his taking things so lightly, and treating mankind as a subject for humour:

You have no teeth, Demonax.’ And you, Peregrine, have no bowels.’

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