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10If the things that produce the delights of those who are decadent washed away the mind's fears about astronomical phenomena and death and suffering, and furthermore if they taught us the limits of our pains and desires, then we would have no complaints against them, since they would be filled with every joy and would contain not a single pain or distress (and that's what is bad).[10]
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Notes
[10] Epicurus also mentions the pleasures or delights of decadent people at Letter to Menoikos, Section 131.