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Full Idea
Nobody would choose to have all the good things in the world at the price of becoming somebody else.
Gist of Idea
Nobody would choose all the good things in world, if the price was loss of identity
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1166a23)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.294
A Reaction
This now looks like a particularly good objection to utilitarianism, which aims to promote pleasure, no matter what the cost.
Related Idea
Idea 3764 Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill]