Epicurus

Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE)

"We say that pleasure is the starting-point and the end of living blissfully. For we recognize pleasure as a good which is primary and innate."

• From Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus, translated in Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics by A. A. Long (University of California Press, 1986).

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