Go to Epicurus' Garden and read the motto carved there:
“Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.”
The care-taker of that abode, a kindly host, will be ready for you; he will welcome you with barley-meal and serve you water also in abundance, with these words:
“Have you not been well entertained? This garden does not whet your appetite; it quenches it. Nor does it make you more thirsty with every drink; it slakes the thirst by a natural cure, a cure that demands no fee."
- Seneca, Letters, Book I, XXI
- Seneca, Letters, Book I, XXI
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