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Letter to Menoeceus
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Epicurus’s advice about desire, choice and death is an argument about living well, not a list of invitations to immediate enjoyment.
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 25
Pleasure, virtue and what is up to us
Epicurus teaches how to choose among pleasures; Epictetus separates what is up to us, our judgments, from results that are not. Similar practical advice, the lesson shows, can rest on different views of what makes a life good.