David Hume (1711-1776) in his summary of what he called Epicurus's "little riddle".    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

He undertook to have the "Epicurus" -- a swift vessel, which Cleopatra had given to her friend -- ready for a voyage to the open sea within two hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

But I wonder at the ignorance and precipitancy of those who call Epicurus an atheist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference

She is a goddess such as Epicurus imagines the immortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The sketch of Epicurus which is given in his "Lives" is evidently a "labor of love.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference

'Swine of Epicurus, are you still there?' he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Epicurus, who believed that with death all things ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference

It is atoms which think in us, said Epicurus after Democritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference

The attitude of Epicurus to science is particularly well marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Epicurus praises temperance and fortitude, but only as measures of prudence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

"From which you can see that Epicurus was a man inspired," remarked Eumolpus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

Nevertheless, "Epicurus Rotundus" was now a made man on the highway to success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Atomic Theory of Democritus, held by Epicurus, that the world consists of atoms and void.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Epicurus is reclining in his garden; Zeno looks like a divinity in his porch; the restless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

We shall then put in the first group such well-known seers and poets as Epicurus, Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Epicurus, he might survey from his cloudless calm the darkness and the gloom of the lower world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

The noblest of all pagan philosophies was Stoicism, founded by Zeno, a contemporary of Epicurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Epicurus, who thinks that the father so loves his son, the mother her child, children their parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Epicurus (342-270 B.C.), who was a contemporary of Zeno, taught, in opposition to the Stoics, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The ancient philosopher Epicurus famously said that when it comes to death we all live in an unwalled city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi David Wolpe: The Hut That Reaches the Heavens] Reference

The scope of the Books is as follows: Books i. and ii. state the physical theories of Democritus and Epicurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Epicurus too had the property of the Gardens where he lectured; and these too became the property of his sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius that "Dust thou art, to dust returnest" is spoken of soul as well as body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

Epicurus of Samos, 342-270 B.C. Lived at Athens in his "gardens," an urbane and kindly, if somewhat useless, life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all things, or we must needs grant a nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

The gardens of Epicurus, and of Pisistratus, Cimon, and Theophrastus, were the most famous of any in the Grecian empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

Socrates -- the varied lore of Epicurus, and the lofty teachings of Zeno, have alternately attracted or absorbed your attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference

Euphronios, who had been an ardent follower of Epicurus, suffered from some obstinate affection which his physicians failed to cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

What you say is not so silly after all; but 'twould be highly unpleasant were Epicurus and Leucolophas to come up and call me father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

The Greek philosopher Epicurus, for instance, thought that nobody could be successful unless his or her life was filled with pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Morris: Interview With A Philosopher - The Bicycle Lane: Lance, Life, and True Success] Reference

Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, and other philosophers laid down for the conduct of human life; nor would the deeds and motives of Croesus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Some of the followers of Epicurus seemed to find in his philosophic system justification for free indulgence in every appetite and passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference