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Epicurus

（342-270), founded at Athens the school that bears his name; author of 300 books, natural and ethical philosophy; held happiness to be the highest good; Cicero confuses his teaching here with that of Aristippus and the Cyrenaics; with the latter, happiness consists in individual pleasures; with Epicurus, it is permanent calm of soul and freedom from pain, with pure and lasting pleasures——the pleasures that come from a life of righteousness, 3.12, 117.

the gods existed but had nothing to do with human life, 3.102.

adopted the atomic theory. His own life was temperate even to abstinence; his followers went to excess. A very popular school, 3.116.

represented by Cicero as illogical, 3.39.

their theory of society, 1.158.

M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.

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