The first and foremost rule for the wise conduct of life seems to me to be contained in a view to which Aristotle parenthetically refers in the Nichomachean Ethics: .... not pleasure, but freedom from pain, is what the wise man will aim at.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Counsels and Maxims
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2000 Penn in DC -- (not far from GWU) is NOT painful at all ... how did we miss if for so long?
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