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Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 35
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1. Cicero, On Duties, 3.39 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.39. Atque hoc loco philosoplis quidam, minime mali illi quidem, sed non satis acuti, fictam et commenticiam fabulam prolatam dicunt a Platone; quasi vero ille aut factum id esse aut fieri potuisse defendat! Ilaec est vis huius anuli et huius exempli: si nemo sciturus, nemo ne suspicaturus quidemn sit, cum aliquid divitiarum, potentiae, dominationis, libidinis causa feceris, si id dis hominibusque futurum sit semper ignotuml, sisne facturus. Negant id fieri posse. Nequaquam potest id quidem; sed quaero, quod negant posse, id si posset, quidnam facerent. Urguent rustice sane; negant enim posse et in eo perstant; hoc verbum quid valeat, non vident. Cum enim quaerimus, si celare possint, quid facturi sint, non quaerimus, possintne celare, sed tamquam tormenta quaedam adhibemus, ut, si responderint se impunitate proposita facturos, quod expediat, facinorosos se esse fateantur, si negent, omnia turpia per se ipsa fugienda esse concedant. Sed iam ad propositum revertamur. 3.39.  And yet on this point certain philosophers, who are not at all vicious but who are not very discerning, declare that the story related by Plato is fictitious and imaginary. As if he affirmed that it was actually true or even possible! But the force of the illustration of the ring is this: if nobody were to know or even to suspect the truth, when you do anything to gain riches or power or sovereignty or sensual gratification — if your act should be hidden for ever from the knowledge of gods and men, would you do it? The condition, they say, is impossible. of course it is. But my question is, if that were possible which they declare to be impossible, what, pray, would one do? They press their point with right boorish obstinacy, they assert that it is impossible and insist upon it; they refuse to see the meaning of my words, "if possible." For when we ask what they would do, if they could escape detection, we are not asking whether they can escape detection; but we put them as it were upon the rack: should they answer that, if impunity were assured, they would do what was most to their selfish interest, that would be a confession that they are criminally minded; should they say that they would not do so they would be granting that all things in and of themselves immoral should be avoided. But let us now return to our theme.
2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.690-1.700, 3.830, 4.1018-4.1019, 5.1151-5.1160 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Confusion of Tongues, 48-49, 46 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

46. For when he sees war stirred up in the midst of tranquil peace, so as to be continued and incessant among all men, both public and private, not existing only among nations and countries, and cities and villages, but also in every house, and between each particular individual; who is there who does not reproach and admonish and seek to correct the foolish men whom he sees, and not by day only, but also by night, his soul being unable to remain tranquil by reason of the hatred of wickedness implanted in his nature?
4. Philo of Alexandria, That Every Good Person Is Free, 78, 85-86, 76 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

76. These men, in the first place, live in villages, avoiding all cities on account of the habitual lawlessness of those who inhabit them, well knowing that such a moral disease is contracted from associations with wicked men, just as a real disease might be from an impure atmosphere, and that this would stamp an incurable evil on their souls. of these men, some cultivating the earth, and others devoting themselves to those arts which are the result of peace, benefit both themselves and all those who come in contact with them, not storing up treasures of silver and of gold, nor acquiring vast sections of the earth out of a desire for ample revenues, but providing all things which are requisite for the natural purposes of life;
5. Seneca The Younger, Natural Questions, 7.32.2-7.32.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Statius, Siluae, 2.2.131-2.2.132 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.22, 10.139 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

10.22. And when near his end he wrote the following letter to Idomeneus:On this blissful day, which is also the last of my life, I write this to you. My continual sufferings from strangury and dysentery are so great that nothing could augment them; but over against them all I set gladness of mind at the remembrance of our past conversations. But I would have you, as becomes your life-long attitude to me and to philosophy, watch over the children of Metrodorus.Such were the terms of his will.Among his disciples, of whom there were many, the following were eminent: Metrodorus, the son of Athenaeus (or of Timocrates) and of Sande, a citizen of Lampsacus, who from his first acquaintance with Epicurus never left him except once for six months spent on a visit to his native place, from which he returned to him again. 10.139. [A blessed and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness [Elsewhere he says that the gods are discernible by reason alone, some being numerically distinct, while others result uniformly from the continuous influx of similar images directed to the same spot and in human form.]Death is nothing to us; for the body, when it has been resolved into its elements, has no feeling, and that which has no feeling is nothing to us.The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
8. Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 23, 33, 5, 2



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
adrastus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
alexander of aphrodisias Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
anger / irascibility, natural (ὀργή) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
ariston of alexandria Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
aristotle, philosophy devolving into commentary on Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
aristotle Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
aspasius Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority, oral-traditional Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority, pagan sources, decline of non-intellectual authority in Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
boethius of sidon Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
criminals Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
de officiis Gilbert, Graver and McConnell, Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy (2023) 107
dead sea scrolls, caves, artificial (marl) Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
death/dying, by execution Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
death/dying Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
deservedness Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
disdain (καταφρόνησις) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101
disposition (διάθεσις) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
enemies Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118, 160
epicureanism, virtues in Gilbert, Graver and McConnell, Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy (2023) 107
epicurus, on virtue Gilbert, Graver and McConnell, Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy (2023) 107
epicurus and epicureans Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
essenes, link with the therapeutae Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
fear Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118, 160
friends/friendship Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101, 160
help (offered or received) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
herminus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
justice, in epicureanism Gilbert, Graver and McConnell, Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy (2023) 107
justice/injustice Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118, 160
kindness Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101, 160
kyriae doxai (epicurus) Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
lawbreaking Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101, 118, 160
lucretius Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189; Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
magnanimity Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101
merchants Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
nicolaus of damascus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
oral-traditional authority, decline of, in pagan sources Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
pain Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
peripatetics Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
philo of alexandria, and cities Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philo of alexandria Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philos essenes, and material things Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philos essenes, lifestyle of Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philos essenes, peace and war imagery' Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philos essenes Taylor, The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012) 33
philosophy/philosophical schools, oral tradition, collapse of Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
pity Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
profit Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
punishment Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
reale, giovanni Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
revenge Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
safety Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 118
seelenheilung Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
seneca Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
teachers/teaching Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
tranquility (ἀταραξία) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
vice Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101, 160
violence Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 160
virtue Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 101