Principal Doctrines, 18

Epicurus  translated by Peter Saint-Andre

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18As soon as the pain produced by the lack of something is removed, pleasure in the flesh is not increased but only embellished. Yet the limit of enjoyment in the mind is produced by reasoning out these very things and similar things, which once provoked the greatest fears in the mind.

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