Épicure
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Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus
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Epicure exposes a simple method of reaching happy life: dispelling the fear of the gods and death, understanding desires and cultivating stable pleasures. Wisdom becomes a care of the soul.
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Epicurus: Letters on Happiness
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These letters condense Epicurean ethics and physics. They show how knowledge of nature, friendship and the moderation of desire lead to freedom from disturbance.
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Epicurus: Letters, maxims and sentences
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Human life, hideous to behold, lay on the earth, crushed under the weight of a religion which reared its head from the heavenly regions, towering over mortals, looking horrible, when for the first time a Greek, a mortal, dared to turn his eyes upon it, and the first to stand against it; neither what was said about the gods, nor the lightning, nor the sky and its menacing rumble stopped him (...). Therefore, the vigo…
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