teaching of Epicurus
Epicurus
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation
Explicitly named and then called 'dark doctrines' in the next paragraph.
And Epicurus too says that the wise man according to him does not wish to do wrong for the sake of some gain;
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On the Happy Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages
Seneca directly names Epicurus and states his own favorable judgement of his actual teaching.
For my own part I am of this opinion—and I shall say it to the displeasure of my own school—that Epicurus's teachings are holy and right and, if you draw nearer, austere;
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