In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

他说，在我们追求美好生活的过程中，寻求真正的快乐是很重要的——这个建议最初是由伊壁鸠鲁提出的。

Epicurus also believed that death was not to be feared.

伊壁鸠鲁也认为，死亡是不可怕的。

Drop yourself on the sidewalk. As the great Epicurus wrote.

那就把你自己扔在大马路上。

The original school was based in Epicurus ' home and garden.

最初的学校立足于伊壁鸠鲁的家和花园。

Therefore, as Epicurus famously said, death is nothing to us.

因此，伊壁鸠鲁说了这样一句名言：死亡与我们无关。

Epicurus' philosophy represents a curious mix of opposing ideas.

伊壁鸠鲁的哲学反应了对立观念之间的一种古怪的混合。

In essence, Epicurus follows Democritus 'atomism but with one important modification.

从本质上来说，伊壁鸠鲁遵循著德谟克利特的原子论，但有一处重要的修改。

In connection with this argument, Epicurus formulated a version of the problem of evil.

与这种论证相联系，伊壁鸠鲁提出了对罪恶问题的看法。

Contentment, we have been told by Epicurus, consists not in great wealth, but in few wants.

伊壁鸠鲁告诉我们，满足并不在于巨大财富，而是得自寡欲。

For all the happiness of the whole life in wisdom, in order to obtain the most important friendship. - Epicurus.

在智慧提供给整个人生的一切幸福之中，以获得友谊最为重要。——伊壁鸠鲁。

Noting the many ills suffered by people in the world, Epicurus complained, 'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

伊壁鸠鲁正是注意到在世界上人民遭受到许多痛苦，他如此控诉：“如果上帝愿意就可以阻止邪恶，但为何不能阻止？”

Happy is not inherently bad, but some joyful production has brought many times more than happy annoyance. — Epicurus.

快乐没有本来就是坏的，但是有些快乐的产生者却带来了比快乐大许多倍的烦扰。——伊壁鸠鲁。

Epicurus, who was known as a hedonist, didn't argue that the pursuit of more and more pleasure was the key to happiness.

以享乐主义闻名的伊壁鸠鲁，并没有说越来越多的快乐就是幸福的关键。

Epicurus also taught that wisdom was the greatest virtue, for through it we could learn which pleasures to seek and which to avoid.

伊壁鸠鲁还告诉我们，智慧是最大的美德，通过它我们可以学到的如何追求乐趣，并避免痛苦。

Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.

埃毕丘鲁斯追求幸福的办法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不涂黄油的面包，节日才加一点奶酪。

Like Democritus and other Presocratics before him, Epicurus rejected the idea of anthropomorphic gods who were cognisant of human affairs.

就像在他之前的德谟克利特和苏格拉底之前的哲学家一般，伊壁鸠鲁识到人类事务的概念而拒绝了拟人化的神的观念。

Born to a poor Athenian colonist in Samos, Epicurus was neither wealthy nor aristocratic and apparently suffered from ill health for much of his life.

伊壁鸠鲁出生于Samos的一个贫穷雅典殖民者家庭，他既不富有，也不是贵族，而且似乎体弱多病。

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." -epicurus.

“不要因为渴望你没有的东西而毁了你所拥有的，要记住你现在拥有的曾经也是你求而不得的。”——伊壁鸠鲁。

This mysterious and wholly unaccounted for property allowed Epicurus to maintain a concept of human free will against the critics of earlier atomic theories.

这个神秘而完全不可解释的性质使伊壁鸠鲁主张人类的自由意志以对抗早期原子论的批评家们。

While the advice of philosophers like Epicurus and Schopenhauer, comes to us with the lustre of intellectual achievement, modern self-help books often don't.

历史上像古希腊伊壁鸠鲁和德国叔本华这样的哲人告诫我们，智慧的成就才能光芒四射。

Of the two, Epicurus taught, mental pain is the worse, for severe physical pain either soon abates and can be brought under control of the mind, or results in death.

伊壁鸠鲁教导人们，身体上的苦痛会快速的消退，而且可以被精神控制住，而精神上的痛苦就糟糕的多，两者控制的不好或许会导致死亡。

According to Epicurus, atoms in the void originally moved in undisturbed parallel lines.However, some atoms swerved from their course by a spontaneous act of free will.

根据伊壁鸠鲁的理论，原子本来在空间中不受干扰的平行移动，但是有些原子因为其自由意志的自发动作，从它原本的轨道突然转向。

According to Epicurus, atoms in the void originally moved in undisturbed parallel lines. However, some atoms swerved from their course by a spontaneous act of free will.

根据伊壁鸠鲁的理论，原子本来在空间中不受干扰的平行移动，但是有些原子因为其自由意志的自发动作，从它原本的轨道突然转向。

In the Vatican there are many sites in: Epicurus school of ancient GREek ruins, St. Peter's Cathedral and the Vatican rectangular palace, a palace in the Vatican Library.

在梵蒂冈境内有许多名胜古迹：古希腊伊壁鸠鲁学派遗址、圣彼得长方形大教堂及梵蒂冈宫殿，宫殿内有梵蒂冈图书馆。

Epicurus wrote a 37-volume treatise on empiricism called on Nature, perhaps the most comprehensive basis in classical times for the modern notion of learning through experimentation.

伊壁鸠鲁写下了37卷关于经验主义的论著，名为《论自然》，可能是古典时代对于经验学习的现代观点最广泛的理论基础。

It is clear, however, that Epicurus' real interest was not in speculative metaphysics but with a practical philosophy of life which required atomism only for its theoretical underpinnings.

但是，显然伊壁鸠鲁的真正兴趣不在推理式的形而上学之上，而在于对生活有实用价值的哲学上，而这种哲学仅仅只是将原子论作为其理论基础。