For Sartre, "hell is other people."
Epicurus prizes friendship, but is keenly aware of the need to protect oneself from pretty much everyone else.
A number of entries in the Principal Doctrines refer to this:
"Whatever you can provide yourself with to secure protection from men is a natural good."
"Some men wished to become esteemed and admired by everyone, thinking that in this way they would procure for themselves safety from others."
"The most perfect means for securing safety from men, which arises, to some extent, from a certain power to expel, is the assurance that comes from quietude and withdrawal from the world."
- Epicurus
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