The Art of Happiness: Or, The Teachings of Epicurus |
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... reason only . By habitual subservience to social impulses , individuals , associating themselves in vast ag- gregates , have created organisms of a type lower than themselves , organisms that act almost ex- clusively in obedience to ...
... reason only . By habitual subservience to social impulses , individuals , associating themselves in vast ag- gregates , have created organisms of a type lower than themselves , organisms that act almost ex- clusively in obedience to ...
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... reason , looking before and after , to the matter in hand . And as reason can not decide rightly unless the premises on which it acts are correct , the Master encouraged the study of science . All our knowledge , he said , comes from ...
... reason , looking before and after , to the matter in hand . And as reason can not decide rightly unless the premises on which it acts are correct , the Master encouraged the study of science . All our knowledge , he said , comes from ...
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... reason hunted ; and no sooner had , Past reason hated , as a swallowed bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad : Mad in pursuit , and in possession so ; Had , having , and in quest to have , extreme ; A bliss in proof , and prov'd ...
... reason hunted ; and no sooner had , Past reason hated , as a swallowed bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad : Mad in pursuit , and in possession so ; Had , having , and in quest to have , extreme ; A bliss in proof , and prov'd ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE | 9 |
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS | 13 |
ALTRUISM | 17 |
Copyright | |
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adjectives admirable altruistic Athenians Athens Beatrice Webb beauty better blessed blessedness body Boétie Cephissus Ceramicus CHAPTER Charles Lamb Christian ciples Confucius conversation creed cultivate curean curus death delightful desires disciples divine Doctor Johnson doctrine Don Quixote drink duty egoist emotional enjoy enjoyment Epicurean book Epicurean philosophy Epicurus Epicurus's ethics evil fashion fastidiousness fear flowers Forsyte Saga friends friendship frugality garden gentle gentleman gods Greek Guy Mannering Harunobu heart HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK Hermarchus human ideas Idomeneus immortal individual intellectual leisure live look Macedon man's Master means ments mind moral moralists Mount Pentelicus munity nation nature needs ness never pain pleas pleasant pleasure practise Praxiteles prejudices reason religion sect sensation SHAL social society soul spirit Stoic sweet talk tastes teaching theory things thought tion true truth virtue wisdom wise wish words young