PHIL 1100 Chapter Notes -Menoeceus, Epicurus, Sentience
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in search of it when he has grown old, for no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. We must exercise in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed towards attaining it. God is a living being immortal and happy you shall not affirm to him anything that is foreign to his immortality or that is repugnant to his happiness. Life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly understood that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. He who has a clear understanding of what are necessary natural desires (e. g. necessary to live, rid.