An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Epicurus did call pleasure the good, but he didn’t mean parties or rich food. In his words, “we mean the freedom of the body from pain, and of the soul from confusion.”

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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