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Epicurus, the founder of the first school (which bears his name), was a very early atomist, with no time for mysticism. He controversially believed that everything was made up of tiny particles flying invisibly through space. Happiness, he said, was a question of tranquillity, and good and evil were no more than a matter of pleasure and pain; to
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Epicurus was a materialist, but not a determinist. He followed Democritus in believing that the world consists of atoms and the void; but he did not believe, as Democritus did, that the atoms are at all times completely controlled by natural laws.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Instead, the Epicurean ideal is to live quietly with one’s close friends and contemplate the random movements of the atomic universe.
Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
the gods are far too busy with their own affairs to bother with ours.