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“Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epicurus. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e6bbfffce4b75b1abd184754681bdd7067252767fb9a2cc7ae809af745067995
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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