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.
EpicurusThe mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
EpicurusThe magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
EpicurusMy garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
Epicurus