Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent…

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and…

— Catherine Wilson

Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

— Catherine Wilson

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

— Epicurus

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality…

— Aristotle

“Western views of justice are primarily focused on how things should be done—laws, rules, and what should happen when laws are broken. In Hebrew…

— Jessica Nicholas

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends…

— Catherine Wilson

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble…

— Catherine Wilson

Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.

— Catherine Wilson

“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and human affairs.…

— Yaakov Malkin

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live…

— Daniel Klein

“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It…

— Benoît Duteurtre

“Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.”

— Thornton Wilder

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose…

— Lucian

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements alone will…

— Yuval Noah Harari