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Now, in this list of rules touching expediency, 1
Antipater of Tyre, a Stoic philosopher who recently
died at Athens, claims that two points were overlooked by Panaetius—the care of health and of
property. I presume that the eminent philosopher
overlooked these two items because they present no
difficulty. At all events they are expedient. Although they are a matter of course, I will still say a
few words on the subject. Individual health is preserved by studying one s own constitution, by observing what is good or bad for one, by constant self-control in supplying physical wants and comforts
(but only to the extent necessary to self-preservation), by forgoing sensual pleasures, and finally, by
the professional skill of those to whose science these
matters belong.
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1 Sanitation.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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