Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 101
Plutarch On Peace of Mind 474c ( 490 U) [1-149]
"He who has least need of tomorrow will approach it with the great-
est pleasure."Seneca Letters on Ethics 24.22-23 (496-498 U) [1-150]
Epicurus reproaches those who long for death no less than those who
fear it, and says: "it is absurd to pursue death because you are weary of
life, when you have made death worth pursuing by your way of life." In
another place he says something similar: "So great is the folly, nay
madness, of men that some are driven to death by the fear of death." ...
"What is so absurd as to seek death when you have made your own life
troubled by fearing death."
Athenaeus Deipnosophists 12, 547a (512 U) [1-151]
"I spit upon the honourable and on those who vainly admire it, when-
ever it produces no pleasure."Clement of Alexandria Stromates 6.2,24.10
p. 441 Stahlin (519 U)
"The greatest fruit of justice is freedom from disturbance."Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.20.6-7
(523 U)
[1-152][1-153]- So too Epicurus, when he wishes to abolish the natural community
of men with one another, makes use of the very thing he is destroying. - For what does he say? Don't be deceived, men, or misled or mistaken:
there is no natural community of rational beings with each other. Believe
me: those who say otherwise are deceiving you and reasoning falsely.
Stobaeus Anthology 4.143 (vol. 4 p. 90 W-H;
530 U)[1-154]"The laws exist for the sake of the wise, not so that they will not
commit injustice but so that they will not suffer injustice."Plutarch A Pleasant Life 1090cd (532 U) [1-155]
(1090c) ... for they say that those who break the law and commit
injustice live in fear and misery for all time, because even if they can
escape detection, it is nevertheless impossible to be confident about