Epicurus
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#Epicurus
Epicurus · 341–270 BCE
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“The philosopher whose name became a byword for gourmet excess lived on bread and water, taught that happiness needs almost nothing, and spent his life curing people of the fear of gods and the fear of death.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Pleasure is the goal of life — but pleasure, properly understood, means the absence of pain in the body and of turmoil in the soul, and it is astonishingly cheap to get.”
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