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PLEASURE: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life
The Next Big Idea
The Importance of the Necessary Desires
Greed is an undercurrent of our American culture, for sure. I love Epicurus's observation that the necessary desires are actually pretty accessible to all of us. The most common example would be very ambitious people who end up not spending the time with their children and families or friends that later in their lives, they wish that they had.
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