10 Part 1 Introduction - MIT
[5] The De Vita et Moribus Epicuri is important because here Gassendi addresses
the ad hominem attacks against Epicurus in antiquity, including those from p
atristic authors. ..... Voltaire, for instance, said of Gassendi, ?God preserve me
from employing three hundred pages from the history of Gassendi. Life is too
short and ...