We must drive away this grief of hers: how is that to be done?
Shall we lay her on a bed of down; introduce a singer; shall we burn cedar, or present here with some pleasant liquor, and provide her something to eat?
Are these the good things which remove the most afflicting grief?
For you but just now said you knew of no other good.

I should agree with Epicurus that we ought to be called off from grief to contemplate good things, if we could only agree upon what was good.
XX.

It may be said, What! do you imagine Epicurus really meant this, and that he maintained anything so sensual?
Indeed I do not imagine so, for I am sensible that he has uttered many excellent things and sentiments, and delivered maxims of great weight.

Therefore, as I said before, I am speaking of his acuteness, not of his morals.

Though he should hold those pleasures in contempt which he just now commended, yet I must remember wherein he places the chief good.