• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

    Epictetus: Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
    Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”