(l.c.) and Kuster on Suidas (s. v.) have supposed that
there were two philosophers of the name of Anniceris, the one contemporary with Plato, the
other with Alexander the Great. If so, the latter is the one of whose system some notices have
reached us, and who forms a link between the Cyrenaic and Epicurean schools. He was opposed to
Epicurus in two points: (1) he denied that pleasure was merely the absence of pain, for if so
death would be a pleasure; and (2) he attributed to every separate act a distinct object,
maintaining that there was no general end of human life. In both these statements he
reasserted the principle of Aristippus. But he differed from Aristippus, inasmuch as he
allowed that friendship, patriotism, and similar virtues, were good in themselves; saying that
the wise man will derive pleasure from such qualities, even though they cause him occasional
trouble, and that a friend should be chosen not only for our own need, but for kindness and
natural affection. Again he denied that reason (habit (l.c.;
Hist. Crit. Phil. 2.3; Ritter, Geschichte der Phil.
7.3.) Aelian (