Epicurus said you should live for pleasure – adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for...

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no...

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than...