Epicurus

Speech parts

1. Epicurus - Noun

2. Epicurus - Proper noun

Meaning

Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Thomas Jefferson

First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus. Maimonides

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Marcus Aurelius

Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good. Diogenes Laërtius

Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend. C. S. Lewis

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. Epicurus

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