Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for Epicureanism in alt.philosophy
Author: Immortalist
Date: Sep 7, 2008 23:51
... relationships are necessary to happiness, its essence remains within us, in rounded knowledge and clarity of soul. Surely sense pleasure is not the way: that road is a circle: as Socrates phrased the coarser Epicurean idea, we scratch that we may itch, and itch that we may scratch. Nor can a political career be the way; for therein we walk subject to the whims of the people; and nothing is ...
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