Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Two of Epicurus’s early influences, Democritus and Pyrrho, had actually journeyed all the way to what is now India, where they had… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.” — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the… — Erin Loechner Copy Share Image
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“ Epicurus ... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great… — Lucian Copy Share Image
“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he… — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of… — Benoît Duteurtre Copy Share Image
“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“He was intelligent, and just sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he was, in reality, only a product… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.” — Luke Slattery Copy Share Image
“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The Buddha promised redemption after thousands of deaths and rebirths, after millennia of suffering. Epicurus promised the end of all striving with… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“Ingratitude is a bad habit by which we needlessly punish ourselves. When we no longer have the things we enjoy, we miss… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
“There is a distinction between going after desirable things in life and needing them for our happiness. We can go after those… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
“Is it intelligent to make ourselves miserable while living in the past, haunted by memories while being inexorably swallowed by them? Whenever… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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