The limit of quantity in pleasures is the removal of all that is painful. Wherever and whenever this is present, pleasure is no longer increased, but has reached its stationary maximum.
— Epicurus Ancient

Epicurean philosophy

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Principal Doctrines, III

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c. 300 BCE

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10074/10074-h/10074-h.htm

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