Sayings and Anecdotes: with Other Popular Moralists (Oxford World's Classics) by Robin Hard

Author:Robin Hard [Hard, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

620 [Epicurus 10, for the distinction between Cyrenaic and Epicurean hedonism] When we [the Epicureans] say, then, that pleasure is the ultimate end, we do not mean by that the pleasures of the dissolute, or those founded in sensual indulgence, as some suppose us to do as a result of ignorance, disagreement, or misrepresentation; no, by pleasure we mean the absence of bodily pain and mental disturbance. It is not an uninterrupted succession of drinking-parties and carousals, or sexual indulgence with boys or women, or the enjoyment of fish and other delights of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life, but the sober exercise of reason, as we carefully examine the grounds for choosing or avoiding each particular thing, and banish the vain opinions through which the greatest disturbance seizes hold of the soul.

(Diogenes Laertius 10.131–2; from Epicurus, Letter 10, to Menoiceus)

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