Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Letter to Menoeceus

Epicurus to Menoeceus, greeting. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more. Therefore, both…Read now

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Robert Drew HicksDefaultHicks translationExtracted from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks, vol. 2 (1925).Epicurus to Menoeceus, greeting. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has…

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