Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

Ancient Collections of Maxims 39 56-57. The wise man feels no more pain when he is tortured <than when his friend is tortured ...

40 1-6 to 1-7 This utterance is ungrateful for past goods: look to the end of a long life. As you grow old, you are such as I w ...

Doxographical Reports 41 in the epitome addressed to Herodotus and in the Principal Doctrines. "For," he says, "every sense-perc ...

42 1-7 to 1-9 every animal; and the one is congenial to us, the other uncongenial. By means of them we judge what to choose and ...

Doxographical Reports 43 the future. He will like the countryside. He will resist fate, and will betray none of his friends. He ...

44 /-9 to /-14 then, the soul also has greater pleasures. And he uses as a proof that the goal is pleasure the fact that animals ...

The Testimony of Cicero Clement of Alexandria Stromates: 2.21,127.2 p. 182 Stahlin (450 U) 45 [1-11] For the Cyrenaics and Epicu ...

46 1-14 to 1-15 a very little bit, indeed a minimal distance, and that in this way are produced the mutual entanglements, linkag ...

The Testimony of Cicero 47 will die at the age of seventy-two in the archonship of Pytharatus", but there were not any fated cau ...

48 1-15 mind would be moved in such a way that it would be compelled by the motion of atoms. Democritus, the founder of atomism, ...

The Testimony of Cicero 49 to accept the view of the Epicureans, who say that such propositions are neither true nor false, or, ...

50 1-16 On the Nature ofthe Gods 1.43-56 [1-16] 43 .... For he [Epicurus] is the only one who saw, first, that the gods exist, b ...

The Testimony of Cicero 51 of activity which characterizes his life, and the mode of operation of his intellect. Nature tells u ...

52 1-16 to 1-17 there is such and such a number of mortal beings, there is no less a number of immortal beings, and if there is ...

The Testimony of Cicero 53 necessity which you call heimarmene, and which leads you to say that whatever happens has flowed from ...

54 /-17 to /-18 gods do not have a body, but only a quasi-body, and that they do not have blood, but only quasi-blood. It is tak ...

The Testimony of Cicero 55 proper place; for example, earth occupies the lowest place, water floods the earth, air is above it, ...

56 /-18 to /-21 he has been criticized by many, and you [Epicureans] cannot find a way out. The whole theory wobbles and limps. ...

The Testimony of Cicero 57 what I could understand that good to be, if I set aside the pleasures we get from sex, from listening ...

58 /-21 to /-23 certain hidden and, as it were, arcane facts, while the latter indicates things which are evident and out in the ...