"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit . . . "
"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain . . . "
I was looking to check my newsletter layout using the "lorem ipsum" text, which I knew was nonsense that commonly serves that purpose. My online search told me "the rest of the story." I didn't know that it was based on an actual Latin text from Cicero.
One might argue with this passage, but I don't think he'd be successful. Even those who seem to seek pain for its own sake have some underlying reason for doing so.
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