Epicurus

1. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority · 2 neutral · 2 extended · 5 endorsed 10 citations · 11 passages

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   Seneca explicitly names Epicurus as speaker and asks Lucilius to take the saying in good part.

   Epicurus himself, the very censurer of Stilbo, uttered a like saying, which you must take in good part, even though I have already cancelled today's debt.

2. De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation

   de recta ratione audiendi

   The anecdote about Epicurus's followers is introduced explicitly as 'an ill thing,' marking it as a negative example the essay argues against.

   For it is an ill thing which Epicurus relates, that, upon reading any epistles from his friends, those about him broke out into tumultuous applauses;

3. Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

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   Epicurus is named explicitly as the philosopher whose admired doctrine on the brevity of great grief is paralleled with, and shown to be anticipated by, Aeschylus's verse.

   sorrows, when they highest climb, What they exceed in measure want in time, we must inform them, is but the same famous sentence which is so much admired in Epicurus, that great griefs are but short, and those that are of long continuance are but small.

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