Epicurus — "Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeu…"

Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the soul.
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Fragment 221

Date: c. 300 BCE

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