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Rh Stoicism and Epicurism, will perhaps bring out the respective doctrines of these sects, or at least the principles and scope of their systems, in a clearer light than we could obtain if we studied them in their isolation, and out of relation to each other.

19. As Zeno had adopted in part the doctrines of a previous sect, the Cynics, so the ethical theory of Epicurus and his followers was founded on the principles of an antecedent sect called the Cyrenaics, who held that pleasure is the summum bonum, the end of all human endeavour. The lines of Horace are well known, in which he represents himself as an eclectic in moral philosophy.—Ep. I. i. 14.

Or, as it is in Pope's imitation—

The last line of Horace seems to give expression