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Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

the Principal Doctrines

also: kuriai doxai, Kyriai Doxai, Sovereign Maxims, select and brief maxims

Epicurus's collection of short doctrinal maxims (Greek Kyriai Doxai). Cotta quotes its first maxim, that what is blessed and immortal neither has trouble nor causes it.

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On the Ends of Good and Evil philosophy · 2 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 2 mentions

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