98 /-130 to /-140
Athenaeus Deipnosophists 12, 546f ( 409 U) [1-130]
And Epicurus says, "the principle and root of all good is the pleasure
of the belly; and the sophisticated and refined [goods] are referred to
this one."
Plutarch Against Colotes 1122e (411 U) [1-131]
All by themselves and without a teacher, these noble and smooth and
agreeable motions of the flesh beckon, as they themselves say, even men
who refuse to admit that they are swayed and softened by them.
Plutarch A Pleasant Life 1090b (413 U) [1-132]
So if the soul supposes that its good lies in the stable condition of the
body and in confidence about [the condition of] the body [as Epicurus
thinks it does], then it cannot live out its life free of fear and upset. For
the body is not only subject to storms and squalls from outside itself,
like the sea, but from within itself it generates more and greater upsets.
Damascius Lectures on the Philebus, 190
(p. 91 Westerink; 416 U)
[1-133]Even Epicurus, referring to natural pleasure, says that it is katastematic.Plutarch A Pleasant Life 1088c-e (417 U) [1-134]
(1088c) ... Epicurus has assigned a common limit to [the pleasures],
the removal of all that causes pain, as though nature increased pleasure
up to the point where it eliminates the painful, but did not permit it to
make any further increase in its size, though it admits of certain non-
necessary variations once it gets free of distress. The journey [which we
make] towards this goal, in the company of desire, constitutes the [full]
measure of pleasure and it is certainly short and economical. (1088d)
That is why when they sense their stinginess in this area, they transfer
their goal from the body, which is a barren field, to the soul, in order to
acquire there pastures and meadows lushly overflowing with pleasures ...
So don't you think that these men do well, in starting from the body,
which is the first place where pleasure makes its appearance, and going
on to the soul as something more secure which perfects everything within
itself? ...
(1088e) ... but if you hear them crying out and shouting that the soul
by nature finds joy and tranquillity in no existing thing except the plea-
sures of the body, whether present or anticipated, and that this is its