A passage from Panaetius of Rhodes
Panaetius of Rhodes, Fragments (in Cicero, De Officiis) 1.11
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There are four principal virtues: wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance. The first is the knowledge of things; the second, the ordering of society; the third, the endurance of toil and pain; the fourth, the moderation of pleasures.
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