Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works
Maximus the Abbot Gnomologium 66 (215 U,
200 A)97
[1-123]"Do not turn away the request of an enemy in need; just protect
yourself, for he is no better than a dog."Porphyry To Marcella 31 (221 U) [1-124]
"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human disease
is healed; for just as there is no benefit in medicine if it does not drive
out bodily diseases, so there is no benefit in philosophy if it does not
drive out the disease of the soul."Plutarch Against Colotes 1117f (222 U) [1-125]
One of Epicurus' doctrines is that no one except the wise man is
unshakeably persuaded of anything.Vatican Scholiast on Dionysius Thrax,
Grammatici Graeci 1.3, p. 108.27-29 (Hilgard)
(227b U)
[1-126]This is how the Epicureans define craft: a craft is a method which
effects what is advantageous for [human] life. "Effects" is used in the
sense of "produces."
Plutarch A Pleasant Life 1093c (229a U) [1-127]
They even reject the pleasures which come from mathematics!Sextus PH 3.194 (398 U) [1-128]
Hence, the Epicureans too think that they are proving that pleasure
is naturally worth choosing; for they say that animals, as soon as they
are born and while they are still uncorrupted, have an impulse to pleasure
and avoid pains.
Alexander of Aphrodisias De Anima CIAG
Supp. 2.1, p. 150.33-34 (398 U)[1-129]The Epicureans held that what is first congenial to us, unqualifiedly,
is pleasure, but they say that as we get older this pleasure becomes articu-
lated.