"Epicurus [makes]... no attempt to combine hedonism with altruism. ‘The greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a formula that has no counterpart in antiquity. The problem that occurs when the claims of self conflict with those of others was not explicitly raised by Epicurus. But it is against the egoism of his Ethics at least as much as against its hedonistic bases that Cicero's criticisms are really directed."
Introduction to Cicero's De Finibus
By Harris Rackham (1868-1944)
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