This was a typical Stoic joke at the expense of Epicurean speculative philosophy.
An edition appeared in 1714 containing translations of verses previously omitted and numerous notes from another hand designed to set forth a complete system of Epicurean philosophy.
But nowadays their tastes run to the cosmic musings of the eponymous founder of Epicurean philosophy.
Lucretius was the first writer to introduce Roman readers to Epicurean philosophy.
The surviving fragments of the wall, which originally extended about 80 meters, form an important source of Epicurean philosophy.
His Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.
Gassendi's suspicion of the Aristotelian account is evident from his Exercises, and his study of Epicurean philosophy provided him with an alternative.
Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.
Elements of Epicurean philosophy have resonated and resurfaced in various diverse thinkers and movements throughout Western intellectual history.
"Mr. Jefferson said that the Epicurean philosophy came nearest to the truth, in his opinion, of any ancient system of philosophy."