Epicurus

Born: 341 BC
Died: 270 BC.

Nationality: Unknown
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Greek philosopher

founder and eponym of Epicureanism

preached pleasure as sole good and goal of morality

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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
"It is not so much our friends'help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."

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