Letter

Folio 249 of Codex Parisinus gr. 1759, a 14th-century Greek paper manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Letter to Menoeceus

Reading companion and full text of Epicurus's Letter to Menoeceus, translated by Robert Drew Hicks — a concise statement of Epicurean ethics covering the gods, the fear of death, the nature of desire, and pleasure as the beginning and end of the blessed life.