Hegesias of Cyrene
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Hegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher.
According to Nuttall, Hegesias "held that life was full of evils, that it was in vain to seek after pleasure, and that all a wise man could do was to fortify himself as best he could against pain."
He is not to be confused with Hegesias or Hegesinus of Salamis, a legendary early poet to whom the epic Cypria was sometimes ascribed.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.
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