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“Hellenistic philosophers, perhaps influenced by the Hindu and Buddhist yogin, searched for ataraxia (undisturbedness), autarky (self-reliance) and apatheia (freedom from suffering).”

“The three cultures differed in their understanding of what made for human happiness. For the Buddhists, it was the inner stillness that stemmed from an absence of desire. For followers of Confucius, it was obedience to a higher order. For Greeks, happiness came from participation - the exercise of man's inborn social and linguistic gifts”