Restate in your own words Epicurus' account of the happy life. Do you find it persuasive? Why or why not? Does it accord with your own experiences of happiness and sorrow? Explain.

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The Answer is The happy life is one in which a person attains True pleasure. This is something like contentment for Epicurus. One lives a life of simple moderation, enjoying luxuries when they come and avoiding pain and discontentment as much as possible. The man who can be happy with a little is happier than the luxurious man because the luxurious man experiences great pain when he loses his luxuries, where the self-sufficient simple man has little to lose and therefore little pain to be experienced by loss. Indeed, he experiences far less pain in loss, for he is hardened against it. And when luxuries come his way, he enjoys them far more than the luxurious man. He does not seek too much physical pleasure, but is simply free from anxiety and tumult.
This seems very much like what many philosophers have described as the happy life. Indeed many have experienced the pain and difficulties which come with luxury. To live simply, to be free of anxiety seems logically like happiness. Can one be happy in any circumstance if one is anxious, or fearful, or in pain? This seems like the antithesis of happiness.
One may think that suffering and pain are part of attaining happiness however. The greatest happiness comes only after struggle and suffering. Perhaps the effort and the pain it takes to manage luxury are merely indicative of the immense happiness it brings once one has mastered its control. Perhaps it is much more difficult than the simple life, but it is also far more rewarding and therefore far more happy.

Restate in Your Own Words Epicurus' Account of the Happy