All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
EpicurusPleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.
EpicurusI 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 greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Epicurus