Bailey: 3. The limit of quantity in pleasures is the removal of all that is painful. Wherever pleasure is present, as long as it is there, there is neither pain of body, nor of mind, nor of both at once.
As to the first sentence of PD3:
See Page 226 of DeWitt's "Epicurus And His Philosophy"
As to "the limit of quantity of pleasure," Plato had previously asserted that pleasure has no limit:
Plato's Philebus 27(e):
Plato's Republic 586b (Book 9)
As to the second sentence of PD03, see DeWitt page 241:
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