Nor is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
-- Cicero (106 BC - 42 BC), Roman philosopher, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Extremes of Good and Evil), sections 1.10.32–33 (first-century B.C.), translation by Harris Rackham (1914). This text is believed closest to the placeholder text, beginning with the line "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit"
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