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As I have shown that such expediency as is opposed1
to moral rectitude is no expediency, so I maintain
that any and all sensual pleasure is opposed to moral
rectitude. And therefore Calliphon and Dinomachus,
in my judgment, deserve the greater condemnation;
they imagined that they should settle the controversy by coupling pleasure with moral rectitude; as
well yoke a man with a beast! But moral rectitude
does not accept such a union; she abhors it, spurns
it. Why, the supreme good, which ought to be
simple, cannot be a compound and mixture of absolutely contradictory qualities. But this theory I have
discussed more fully in another connection; for the
subject is a large one. Now for the matter before
us.
1 Sensual pleasure and moral rectitude incompatible.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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