“You are pleased to think [Epicurus] uneducated. The reason is that he refused to consider any education worth the name that did not help to school us in happiness. Should he have spent his time, as you encourage Triarius and me to do, in perusing poets, who give us nothing solid and useful, but merely childish amusement?   Should he have occupied himself like Plato with music and geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, which, starting from false premises, cannot be true, and which moreover, if they were true, would contribute nothing to make our lives pleasanter and therefore better? Was he, I say, to study arts like these, and neglect the master art, so difficult and correspondingly so fruitful, the art of living?”.   (Torquatus to Cicero, De Finibus)

The answer , manifestly, is “no”.  The wise person studies the art of living, because we have only one life , and it should be one full of love, enjoyment, pleasure and friendship.  Leave the misery and angst to the other philosophers,  or to characters like St. Augustine and the organised religions.