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.

COrporall Pain is that alone, which deserves the name of Evill in it self, and which indeed would carry the Reason of the Great∣est of Evills, if so be our own delusive Opini∣ons had not created and pulled upon our heads another sort of pain, called the pain of the Mind; which many times becoms more grievous and intollerable than any pain of the Body whatever, as we have formerly deduced. For, Discontent of mind, conceived upon the losse of Riches, Honours, Friends, Wife, Children, and the like; doth frequently grow to that height, that it exceeds the sharpest pains of the body: but still that which gives it both being and growth, is our own Opinion, which if right and sound, we should never be moved by any such Losse whatever; in regard that all such things are without the circle of our selves, and so cannot touch us but by the interventi∣on of Opinion, which we coin to our selves. And thereupon we may infer, that we are not subject to any other reall Evill, but only the Pain of the Body: and that the mind ought to complain of nothing, which is not conjoyned to some pain of the body, either present, or to come,