We must therefore pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
— Epicurus Ancient

Epicurean philosophy

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Letter to Menoeceus

Date / Period

c. 300 BCE

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3659/3659-h/3659-h.htm

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