• We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

    Epicurus: We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
    Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”