In what was Epicurus happier, living in his own country, than Metrodorus, who lived at Athens?
Or did Plato's happiness exceed that of Xenocrates, or Polemo, or Arcesilas?
Or is that city to be valued much that banishes all her good and wise men?
Demaratus, the father of our King Tarquin, not being able to bear the tyrant Cypselus, fled from Corinth to Tarquinii, settled there, and had children.

Was it, then, an unwise act in him to prefer the liberty of banishment to slavery at home?
XXXVIII.

Besides the emotions of the mind, all griefs and anxieties are assuaged by forgetting them, and turning our thoughts to pleasure.
Therefore, it was not without reason that Epicurus presumed to say that a wise man abounds with good things, because he may always have his pleasures; from whence it follows, as he thinks, that that point is gained which is the subject of our present inquiry, that a wise man is always happy.

What! though he should be deprived of the senses of seeing and hearing?
Yes; for he holds those things very cheap.

For, in the first place, what are the pleasures of which we are deprived by that dreadful thing, blindness?
For though they allow other pleasures to be confined to the senses, yet the things which are perceived by the sight do not depend wholly on the pleasure the eyes receive; as is the case when we taste, smell, touch, or hear; for, in respect of all these senses, the organs themselves are the seat of pleasure; but it is not so with the eyes.