Epicurean Quotes

“As you say of yourself, I too 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.

[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
― Will Durant

“Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.”
― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.”
― Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil's Coming