The usual way to understand the pleasure of freedom from pain and from distress is by way of the distinction between kinetic pleasures and katastematic, or what are, following Cicero, misleadingly called ‘static’ ones (Diogenes Laertius X 136). The name of the former implies motion and the name of the latter implies a state or condition. The reason the distinction is important is that freedom from pain and from distress is a state or condition, not a motion. Epicurus holds not only that this sta