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LESSON 5 · What Makes Us Happy?

PAUSE TO THINK

What did Epicurus write on his deathbed?

That it was a genuinely happy day.

Dying from a painful urinary blockage, Epicurus wrote to his friend Idomeneus that the physical agony was balanced by the joy of remembering their conversations. He kept practicing his philosophy to the very end.

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