[734b] and it is no longer possible for the man who desires a pleasant life voluntarily to live a licentious life, but it is clear by now (if our argument is right) that no man can possibly be licentious voluntarily: it is owing to ignorance or incontinence, or both, that the great bulk of mankind live lives lacking in temperance. Similarly with regard to the diseased life and the healthy life, one must observe that while both have pleasures and pains, the pleasures exceed


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

load focus Greek (1903)
hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Visualize the most frequently mentioned Pleiades ancient places in this text.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide References (6 total)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:
{"cc_re__cc_re__cc_by_sa_3_0_us": ["section%3D734b');\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"/img/xml.gif\" alt=\"view as XML\" border=\"0\" />\n\t\t    </a>\n\t    \t<a class=\"arrow\" href=\"text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166%3Abook%3D5%3Asection%3D734a\">\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"/img/prev.gif\" alt=\"previous\" border=\"0\" />\n   \t\t \t</a>\n\t    \t<a class=\"arrow\" href=\"text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166%3Abook%3D5%3Asection%3D734c\">\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"/img/next.gif\" alt=\"next\" border=\"0\" />\n   \t\t \t</a>\n\t\t</div> \n\t\t</div> \n\t\t\t<div class=\"rights_info\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cc_rights\">\n\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png\" />\n\t\t\t\t</a><br />This work is licensed under a \n\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License</a>.\n\t\t\t</p>\n\t\t<p class=\"xml_download\">An <a href=\"dltext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166\">XML version</a> of this text is available for download, \n\t\twith the additional restriction ", "\t \t</a>\n\t    \t<a class=\"arrow\" href=\"text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166%3Abook%3D5%3Asection%3D734c\">\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"/img/next.gif\" alt=\"next\" border=\"0\" />\n   \t\t \t</a>\n\t\t</div> \n\t\t</div> \n\t\t\t<div class=\"rights_info\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cc_rights\">\n\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png\" />\n\t\t\t\t</a><br />This work is licensed under a \n\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License</a>.\n\t\t\t</p>\n\t\t<p class=\"xml_download\">An <a href=\"dltext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166\">XML version</a> of this text is available for download, \n\t\twith the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted \n\t\tchanges, storing new additions in a versioning system.</p>\t\t \n\t    </div> \n\t</div> \n\t\n\t<div id=\"right_col\">\n\t    <div id=\"sidecartRight\"></div>\n\t    <div c"]}