SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible · Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum

Plutarch

Translated by William Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin

Epicurus promises pleasure but takes away its best sources: learning, action and hope.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg139, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: William Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg139.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 3

  1. 1Sections 1–10
  2. 2Sections 11–19
  3. 3Sections 20–31