epicurus's

Updated: August 1, 2026

I must quote the lines again; nothing like repetition: 'The banqueters in order set'; and 'groans the festal board With meat and bread. It was a remarkable piece of impudence on Epicurus's part to appropriate the end that belongs to sponging for his system of Happiness. That it was a bit of larceny Epicurus having nothing, and the sponger much, to do with Pleasure I will soon show you.

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