An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Aristippus, another of his students, went the other way. He enjoyed whatever pleasure was in front of him without chasing what wasn’t, and claimed that pleasure never owned him. Of the courtesan Lais he said, “I possess her, but I am not possessed by her.”

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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