Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

The Letter to Menoeceus, Diogenes Laertius 10.122–135. It is short, it is his, and it corrects the luxury myth in his own words before you meet the slogans.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Epicurus that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “Death is nothing to us. For what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.” (Letter to Menoeceus, in Diogenes Laertius 10.124–125, Paraphrase or translation).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for Epicurus is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Death is nothing to us: Where death is, there is no sensation, so being dead is not a harm you will experience.