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Tag Name "Epicurean" (10)

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Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.
Catherine Wilson
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Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.
Jo Walton
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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
Plutarch
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Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action it inspires no enthusiasm it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
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I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.
Gaspard Ulliel
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The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
John Arbuthnot
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I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.
Ray Stevenson
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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 Greece and Rome have left us.
Thomas Jefferson
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Will Durant