879. The philosophical problem with pain

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Shall virtue, then, yield to pain? Shall the happy life of a wise person succumb to it? Good Gods! How base would this be! Spartan boys will bear to have their bodies torn by rods without uttering a groan.

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