Epicurus's morals collected partly out of his owne Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the rhapsodies of Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca ; and faithfully Englished.
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Epicurus's morals collected partly out of his owne Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the rhapsodies of Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca ; and faithfully Englished.
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Epicurus.
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London :: Printed by W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1656.
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Ethics, Ancient.
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"Epicurus's morals collected partly out of his owne Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the rhapsodies of Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca ; and faithfully Englished." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38506.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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II.
That you may exempt your self, therefore,
from these Terrors; accustom your mind to
this thought, That Death doth nothing concern us;
and upon this Argument: whatever of Good
or Evill we are capable of in life, we are capa∣pable
thereof onely in respect of our Sense;
but, Death is a Privation of all Sense, there∣fore,
&c. That Death is a Privation of all Sense,
is consequent from hence, that it is a Dissolu∣tion;
and what is once dissolved, must hence∣forth
remain without all Sense. So that Death
seems a thing most easily Contemptible; inso∣much
as it is an ineffectuall Agent, and in vain
threatens pain, where the Patient is destroyed,
and so ceaseth to be capable of pain.
Notes
Nil igitur mors est, ad nos neque perti∣net hilum. & mox; Multò igitur mortem minus ad nos esse pu∣tandum, si mi∣nus esse potest, quàm quod nihil esse vide∣mus; Lucret. lib. 3.