Epicurus

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EpicurusLetter to Menoeceus
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Preconditions

• The gods do indeed exist, since our knowledge of
  them is a matter of clear and distinct perception
  but they are not like the masses suppose them
  to be

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Preconditions
In this way we shall neither expect the future
outright as something destined to be, nor despair
of it as something absolutely not destined to be
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The Good Life

• And so we speak of pleasure as the starting
  point and the goal of the happy life..