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Stobaeus Anthology 3.17.13 (vol. 3 p. 492
W-H; 135a U, 58 A)
/-48 to I-59
[1-48]"We have been keen for self-sufficiency, not so that we should employ
inexpensive and plain fare under all circumstances, but so that we can
be of good cheer about them."
Seneca Letters on Ethics 18.9 (158 U, 83 A) [1-49]
... He certainly says this in the letter which he wrote to Polyaenus
in the archonship of Charinus; and indeed he boasts that he could be
fed for less than an obol, but that Metrodorus, because he had not yet
made so much [moral] progress, required an entire obol.
Athenaeus Deipnosophists 13, 588ab (117 U, [1-50]
43 A)
"I congratulate you, sir, because you have come to philosophy free of
any taint of culture."
Diogenes Laertius 10.6 (163 U, 89 A) [1-51]
And in his letter to Pythocles,^33 he writes, "0 blessed one, spread your
sails and flee all forms of culture."
Plutarch A Pleasant Life 1097cd (183 U, 99 A) [I-52]
(1097c) ... when [Epicurus] wrote to his friends, "you took care of
us in a godlike and magnificent fashion as regards the provision of food,
and (1097d) you have given proofs which reach to heaven of your good
will towards me."
Seneca Letters on Ethics 9.1 (174 U) [1-53]
You want to know whether Epicurus is right to criticize, as he does
in one letter, those who say that a wise man is self-sufficient and so does
not need a friend. Epicurus makes this objection against Stilpo and those
[i.e., the Stoics] who held that the highest good is a soul free of passions.
Seneca Letters on Ethics 9.8 (175 U) [1-54]
... Although a wise man is self-sufficient, he will still want to have
a friend, if for no other reason, in order to exercise his friendship, so
- Not the same letter translated above.