He differs from the CyrenaicsNext come excerpts dealing with the difference between Epicurean and Cyrenaic ethics. with regard to pleasure. They do not include under the term the pleasure which is a state of rest, but only that which consists in motion. Epicurus admits both; also pleasure of mind as well as of body, as he states in his work
On Choice and Avoidance and in that
On the Ethical End, and in the first book of his work
On Human Life and in the epistle to his philosopher friends in Mytilene. So also Diogenes in the seventeenth book of his
Epilecta, and Metrodorus in his
Timocrates, whose actual words are:
Thus pleasure being conceived both as that species which consists in motion and that which is a state of rest.
The words of Epicurus in his work
On Choice are:
Peace of mind and freedom from pain are pleasures which imply a state of rest; joy and delight are seen to consist in motion and activity.