unspecified teaching on the highest good
Epicurus
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation · 3 passages
The speaker repeatedly invokes Epicurus's own sayings and doctrines as the authoritative basis for the arguments being made.
Epicurus — the very man whom you say is too much given over to pleasures — cries aloud that one cannot live pleasantly unless one lives wisely, honourably, and justly, nor wisely, honourably, and justly unless one lives pleasantly.
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 1 citation · 49 passages
Seneca names Ariston, presents his doctrine at length, and then systematically refutes it.
But Ariston the Stoic, on the contrary, holds this part to be trifling, and one that does not sink right down into the breast, having in it nothing but old wives' counsels, and says that the greatest profit comes from the very decrees of philosophy and from the definition of the highest good;
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