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Full Idea
I spit on the fine and those who emptily admire it, when it doesn't make any pleasure.
Gist of Idea
Fine things are worthless if they give no pleasure
Source
Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]), quoted by Julia Annas - The Morality of Happiness Ch.16
Book Ref
Annas,Julia: 'The Morality of Happiness' [OUP 1995], p.340
A Reaction
in Athenaeus