I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
EpicurusNatural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
EpicurusThanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.
EpicurusWe must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Epicurus