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Quotation from On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines by Epicurus
“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.”
On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines, Principal Doctrines 5, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
Epicurus links pleasure and virtue inseparably.
Citation: "It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly." — Epicurus, On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines, Principal Doctrines 5, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1925). (id epicurus-on-happiness-q1)
