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Quotation from On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines by Epicurus
“Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines, Principal Doctrines 27, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
Epicurus's praise of friendship.
Citation: "Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends." — Epicurus, On Happiness: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines, Principal Doctrines 27, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1925). (id epicurus-on-happiness-q2)
