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by enriquto 2172 days ago
What if I told you it actually is?

> Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui inea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

Translation: 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?

This text could very well be the first page of a softcore erotica (or even hardcore!). The rest of the text is not usually visible. But then again, neither is the rest of lena!

3 comments

Then... you'd be wrong.

It's a philosophical argument against Epicurianism. Which has as much in common with softcare erotica as the phone book.

Not sure what your point is.

This is a really big stretch in interpretation but also in plausibility, since Latin is a dead language.

But if it were true, then you'd have it your way: it'd also be inappropriate in professional settings that don't naturally necessitate it.

> This is a really big stretch in interpretation

According to Wikipedia[0], "[t]he placeholder text is taken from parts of the first book's discourse on hedonism." The first book being the first book of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum

I knew other commenters would bash you for proving their point, but this is quite the best comeback I have seen in long time.