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The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

Note 1 — Chapter XIX · THE MORAL SCIENCE OF THE EPICUREANS. GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation

Epic. in Diog. 128: τὴν ἡδονὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος λέγομεν εἶναι τοῦ μακαρίως ζῇν … πρῶτον ἀγαθὸν τοῦτο καὶ σύμφυτον … πᾶσα οὖν ἡδονὴ … ἀγαθόν.… καθάπερ καὶ ἀλγηδὼν πᾶσα κακόν. Ibid. 141. Cic. Fin. i. 9, 29; Tusc. v. 26, 73: Cum præsertim omne malum dolore definiat, bonum voluptate. ↑

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