Live unknown.
Lathe biosas.
Philosophers
Epicurus
Born on the island of Samos around 341 BCE, Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Garden school in Athens and declared pleasure the highest good. Yet his pleasure was not sensual indulgence but ataraxia — tranquility of mind achieved by eliminating pain and anxiety. Inheriting Democritus's atomism and introducing the 'swerve' of atoms to ground free will, he became a founding figure of Hellenistic practical philosophy.
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Epicurus's Other Quotes
Death is nothing to us; for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
The pleasant life is produced not by endless drinking and revelry but by sober reasoning.
Just as medicine is useless if it does not drive out bodily disease, so philosophy is useless if it does not drive out suffering of the soul.
When we say pleasure is the goal, we do not mean the pleasures of the dissolute or of sensual indulgence, but freedom from bodily pain and mental disturbance.
Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.
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He who would be tranquil should not undertake too many things, either private or public.
-- Democritus
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-- D. T. Suzuki
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
-- Socrates
Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.
-- Crates of Thebes