What are your impresstions of "The Principal Doctrines of Epicurus?” Link provided.?

Question

http://www.epicurus.info/etexts/PD.html
Addressing the number of the principals will save me time to understand what you mean.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello dear!
Since junior high school, I have been reading, studying, and having dialogs on philosophy!
Plato, Homer, Aristotle, some Sophists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, etc., were the main figures we were introduced from the surrounding, including school (definitely church, the Ministry of Education and other government entities were a barrier to knowledge).
Epicurus, we can consider, has been hidden, if not forbidden!
When I reached Epicurus, I found a New World! He has been the highest, regarding his Physics, Psychology, Philosophy and other science knowledge, writing and teachings.
Further, besides his doctrines, his life style is the greatest lesson I could have!
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Euripides, Hercules, Theseus, Ulysses, Pythagoras, etc., etc., all of them had unique styles of life! Most of them had something super in them (or at least this comes to us!).
Epicurus was a real man. He had to strive to survive; he worked for many years to be able to get the money to buy a home in his city, his low income made him to form a special school, where he the rules were so free that only those wanted would go, whenever they wish and for what they wanted. Result: they loved Him! The pupils continue His teaching and life style until all schools were forbidden by the Roman emperors and generals! For 7 - 8 centuries his inception of school became the centre for each city!
Parallel to his life style are his doctrines! I live every day with his advices/ words! I have assisted hundreds of people to "see" the real life!
From all great names we remember and have changed humanity from a group of intelligent animals nothing was missing! They are all super reps of mankind! Personally, I find and understand Epicurus the most!

Answer 2

Hefner is a student of Epicurus. Epicurus discussed the achievement of happiness through seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. To do this, he said, life is best lived in moderation, as in moderate the indulgences. Avoid the poor, he suggested, because their problems are too much to handle and still achieve happiness.

This is nonsense. The life best lived is the life lived in the pursuit of virtue. Virtue is its own reward. Read Socrates and Aristotle. They were smarter ancient Greeks than Epicurus.