Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC
1914 translation by H. Rackham
"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
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A knife under my skin
A scar unto my life
Insanity of the purest kind
You were just a balm for my wounded pride
My mirror to conviction
A notion so profound
Starting to scare myself
Show me how it feels to drown
This is your blind ambition
This is your hopeless cause
I'd give it all to watch you suffer
And you'll find no resolution
There is no solace here to find
I banish darkness from my mind
Useless to fight the current
We're swept away in the flood
Hopelessly harbored feelings
We can now do without
Digging in reminders
I've found the rot inside
Torn away the remnants
So there is nothing but my judgment now
A lack of comfort in
My lack of empathy
The perfect vengeance is just washing me away
This is your blind ambition
This is your hopeless cause
I'd give it all to watch you suffer
And you'll find no resolution
There is no solace here to find
I banish darkness from my mind
Seeping through the cracks
I have found the rot inside
I've existed for far to long
With no say in this life
Does it feel wrong for you to be empty
Does it feel wrong to you to be hollow
Does it feel wrong to you
To be just like me
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I'll show you a broken line
Show me an existence worth fighting for
Beyond this
This is your blind ambition
This is your hopeless cause
I'd give it all to watch you suffer
And you'll find no resolution
There is no solace here to find
I banish darkness from my mind
From my mind
From my mind
From
My mind
From my mind
From my mind
I banish darkness from
My mind