Epicurus
You want a quiet life of friends, simple pleasures and no needless fear. You're not afraid of death, because there is nothing to fear in it.
“Death is nothing to us; when we exist, death is not, and when death exists, we are not.”
What you’d believe
- Pleasure is the highest goodThe goal of life is pleasure, rightly understood as tranquillity and the absence of physical and mental pain — not indulgence.
- Death is nothing to usSince the soul is atomic and perishes with the body, death is the absence of all sensation, and so cannot harm us.
- The gods do not interveneGods exist as blessed, untroubled beings but take no interest in human affairs.
