Bread and water. Send cheese if it's a feast.
Epicurus, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10
Bread and water. Send cheese if it's a feast.
Epicurus, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10
The source
"Bread and water. Send cheese if it's a feast." Epicurus said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"he is content with water and plain bread, and adds: Send me some Cytherean cheese, that if I wish to have a feast, I may have the means"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Epicurus (341–270 BC). Taught that a simple life among friends is the good life.
Questions
- Who said "Bread and water. Send cheese if it's a feast."?
- Epicurus (341–270 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 10.
- What is the original wording?
- he is content with water and plain bread, and adds: Send me some Cytherean cheese, that if I wish to have a feast, I may have the means (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
Filed under Calm.
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A calm mind is a citadel.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.48
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Bitter cucumber? Toss it. Thorns on the trail? Step around.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.50
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Everything has two handles. Grab the one you can carry.
Epictetus, Enchiridion 43
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Know yourself.
Delphic maxim, Delphic inscription (Plato, Protagoras 343b)
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