The Art of Happiness: Or, The Teachings of Epicurus |
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... spirit , åra pagia , exemption from disturbance , such as one may behold in the countenance of the Hermes , that Praxiteles carved for the sacred way at Olympia . The god is not surrounded by awe and majesty , he is not the embodiment ...
... spirit , åra pagia , exemption from disturbance , such as one may behold in the countenance of the Hermes , that Praxiteles carved for the sacred way at Olympia . The god is not surrounded by awe and majesty , he is not the embodiment ...
Page 139
... spirit to coarse and turbulent recreations . Leisure needs contrast , as day needs night . By work Epicureans mean the labor necessary to satisfy the primary needs , food , clothes , lodging , the secondary needs , comforts , books ...
... spirit to coarse and turbulent recreations . Leisure needs contrast , as day needs night . By work Epicureans mean the labor necessary to satisfy the primary needs , food , clothes , lodging , the secondary needs , comforts , books ...
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... spirit , which are alien to the Epicurean , to the altruistic amplifications of language , which are also alien to him . Epicurus , himself , accord- ing to Greek scholars , had a very poor style , and his disciples , though they like ...
... spirit , which are alien to the Epicurean , to the altruistic amplifications of language , which are also alien to him . Epicurus , himself , accord- ing to Greek scholars , had a very poor style , and his disciples , though they like ...
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