By wanting only the safe and the simple, one is spared trouble, but also misses greatness.

Objects to

Sorting promises peace by reserving desire for simple and safe objects, those whose satisfaction depends only on us.
But what one thus sets aside is not only the superfluous: it is also all that, by nature, exceeds measure and escapes our control, the love that can be lost, the work that can fail, the ambition that can wound. And it is often from there that what gives a life its height comes.
Epicurean prudence buys tranquility at the price of intensity: it shelters itself from torment, but also from what is gained only by agreeing to tremble. By measuring one's desires too closely, one risks a life beyond reproach and without radiance.

Therefore So sorting, in protecting us from trouble, may deprive us of the best: it remains to be seen whether a good life is a life without pain, or a life fully lived.

Deepenings

Is pleasure at rest enough?

holds the highest pleasure to be a stable state, the absence of pain and trouble, and not the excitement that rises and falls.
But one may object, as some did already in antiquity, that a purely « static » pleasure looks all but indistinguishable from the absence of desire, and that a life wanting nothing uncertain has already, out of prudence, given up much living.

Possible resolutions of the objection

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Challenges

The Epicurean measure

Problem

The hierarchy of desires