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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9914aba3-733e-4721-93a7-67caa07eb950/F469B384-D8E4-4A99-B02B-8DE8690737FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epicurus&oldid=219058821" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epicurus&oldid=219058821" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epicurus&oldid=219058821"><P><B>Epicurus</B> (<A title="Greek language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language">Greek</A> <SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">Έπίκουρος</SPAN>) (<A title="341 BCE" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/341_BCE">341 BCE</A>, <A title="Samos Island" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_Island">Samos</A> – <A title="270 BCE" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/270_BCE">270 BCE</A>, <A title="Athens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens">Athens</A>) was an <A title="Greek philosophy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy">ancient Greek philosopher</A> and the founder of the school of philosophy called <A title="Epicureanism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism">Epicureanism</A>. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what we know about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epicurus&oldid=219058821"><P>For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by <I>aponia</I>, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and bad, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of <A title="Atomism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism">atoms</A> moving in empty space.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F469B384-D8E4-4A99-B02B-8DE8690737FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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