Virtue (A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself)

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    2. What is Virtue and what aspects of Virtue does an Epicurean cultivate? 1

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    2. Cicero Attributing To Epicurus The View That Virtuous Action Is Itself Pleasurable 9

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    2. David Sedley on The Epicurean Separation of Virtue And Pleasure

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    2. Elli On Arete / Virtue

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    2. Would Epicurus Say That Epictetus (A "Virtuous Man") lived a pleasant life?

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