Epicurus’s five fundamental teachings

“The blessed and indestructible being of the divine has no concerns of its own, nor does it make trouble for others. It is not affected by feelings of anger or benevolence, because these are found where there is lack of strength.

Death means nothing to us, because that which has been broken down into atoms has no sensation and that which has no sensation is no concern of ours.

The quantitative limit of pleasure is the elimination of all feelings of pain. Wherever the pleasurable state exists, ther...