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Immediate satisfaction, or relief, and those who confer it, are treated with contempt, and presented as in hostility to the perfection of the mental structure. The Stoics altered this theory by saying that only the first of the three was bonum; the others were merely praeposita or sumenda. Lastly, it was maintained by Eudoxus, one of the most estimable philosophers contemporary with Aristotle.
Accordingly, the Stoics were obliged to let in some pleasures as an object of pursuit, and some pains as an object of avoidance, though not under the title of Good and Evil, but with the inferior name of Sumenda and Rejicienda. Substantially, therefore, they held that pains are an evil, but, by a proper discipline, may be triumphed over.
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