PhilosophyQuotes for March 28, 2001:

"Beauty and virtue and the like are to be honored, if they give pleasure; but if they do not give pleasure, we must bid them farewell."

"I am thrilled with pleasure in the body, when I live on bread and water, and I spit upon luxurious pleasures not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them."

"Your anxiety is directly proportional to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires."

-Epicurus, Fragments

Epicurus' Fragments is included in The Essential Epicurus, which is available online at Amazon.com.