• Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial , Chap. IV , says:⁠— “They may sit in the orchestra and noblest seats of heaven who have held up shaking hands in the fire, and humanly contended for glory. Meanwhile Epicurus lies deep in Dante’s hell, wherein we meet with tombs enclosing souls, which denied their immortalities. But whether the virtuous heathen, who lived better than he spake, or, erring in the principles of himself, yet lived above philosophers of more specious maxims, lie so deep as he is placed, at least so low as not to rise against Christians, who, believing or knowing that truth, have lastingly denied it in their practice and conversation⁠—were a query too sad to insist on.” Also Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy , Part II Sec. 2. Mem. 6. Subs. 1, thus vindicates the memory of Epicurus:⁠— “A quiet mind is that voluptas , or summum bonum of Epicurus; non dolere, curis vacare, animo tranquillo esse , not to grieve, but to want cares, and have a quiet soul, is the only pleasure of the world, as Seneca truly recites his opinion, not that of eating and drinking, which injurious Aristotle maliciously puts upon him, and for which he is still mistaken, mala audit et vapulat , slandered without a cause, and lashed by all posterity.” ↩