Fourfold Remedy (Tetrapharmakos)

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A four-line summary of Epicurean teaching preserved by Philodemus: god presents no fears, death no worries, the good is easy to obtain, and the terrible is easy to endure. It condenses the first four Principal Doctrines. See True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed and Death Is Nothing To Us.

Greek τετραφάρμακος (tetrapharmakos), the name of a four-ingredient medical salve

1. Key Texts

Source: Philodemus, To the Sophists (PHerc. 1005), col. 4; compare Principal Doctrines 1–4.

2. See Also

True Divinity Is Incorruptible And Blessed
Death Is Nothing To Us
Principal Doctrines

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