Later compilation · Essential works
Principal Doctrines (Kyriai Doxai)
Κύριαι δόξαι
The forty maxims condense the system into short formulas meant to be learned by heart. The first four contain the so-called "fourfold remedy": the blessed and immortal being neither has troubles nor causes them; death is nothing to us; the limit of pleasure is the removal of all pain; intense pain is brief and prolonged pain is bearable. Then come maxims on prudence and justice, on desires, on the security friendship brings and, at the end, a theory of justice as a compact neither to harm nor be harmed.
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Authorship note
A collection of forty sayings that Diogenes Laertius copies at the end of Book X (139–154) and lists among Epicurus' works. According to Konstan, they were excerpted from his writings or, in some cases, from those of his closest associates, to make them easy to memorise.
Editions and translations
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English
The Art of Happiness
Penguin Classics, 2013
Translation: George K. Strodach
ISBN 9780143107217
Prólogo de Daniel Klein.
The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Hackett Publishing, 1994
Translation: Brad Inwood y L. P. Gerson
ISBN 9780872202412
Introducción de D. S. Hutchinson.
Epicurus
Epicurus: The Extant Remains
The Conscious LibraryEpicurus: The Extant Remains
Clarendon Press (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1926
Translation: Cyril Bailey
Texto griego y traducción inglesa; dominio público en EE. UU. (publicado en 1926), no en la UE hasta 2028 (Bailey murió en 1957).
Epicurus
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book X
The Conscious LibraryLives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book X
Wikisource (trad. de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
Dominio público (Hicks murió en 1929).
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II: Books 6–10 (Loeb Classical Library 185)
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
ISBN 9780674992047
Edición bilingüe griego-inglés; el libro X contiene los textos de Epicuro.
Español
Epicurus
Los diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
The Conscious LibraryLos diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres, tomo II
Imprenta Real (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1792
Translation: José Ortiz y Sanz
Dominio público; incluye el libro X.
Obras completas
Cátedra (Letras Universales), 1995
ISBN 9788437613307
Reúne las tres cartas, las Máximas capitales, las Sentencias vaticanas y fragmentos; Open Library registra la reimpresión de 2004. Traductor no comprobado en catálogo.
Obras
Tecnos (Clásicos del Pensamiento), 2007
ISBN 9788430942572
Registro de Open Library de 2007; traductor no comprobado en catálogo.
Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres
Alianza Editorial, 2013
Translation: Carlos García Gual
ISBN 9788420676975
Traducción completa de Diógenes Laercio; el libro X contiene las cartas, las Máximas y el testamento.
Other works by Epicurus
- Letter to Menoeceus
- Letter to Herodotus
- Letter to Pythocles
- Vatican Sayings
- On Nature · 300
- Last Will · 270
- Letter to Idomeneus (on his last day) · 270
- Letters (fragments)
- On Atoms and Void
- On Love
- Epitome of Objections to the Physicists
- Against the Megarians
- Problems
- On Choice and Avoidance
- On the End
- On the Criterion, or Canon
- Chaeredemus
- On the Gods
- On Piety
- Hegesianax
- On Lives (4 books)
- On Just Dealing
- Neocles, to Themista
- Symposium
- Eurylochus, to Metrodorus
- On Vision
- On the Angle in the Atom
- On Touch
- On Fate
- Opinions on the Feelings, against Timocrates
- Prognostic
- Exhortation (Protrepticus)
- On Images
- On Presentation
- Aristobulus
- On Music
- On Justice and the Other Virtues
- On Gifts and Gratitude
- Polymedes
- Timocrates (3 books)
- Metrodorus (5 books)
- Antidorus (2 books)
- Opinions on Diseases, to Mithres
- Callistolas
- On Kingship
- Anaximenes
- On Rhetoric
- Larger Epitome
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro X (Epicuro: vida, testamento, cartas a Heródoto, Pitocles y Meneceo, Máximas capitales), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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