EPICURUS
[341 BCE — 270 BCE]

FRAGMENTS

In addition to the commonly cited quotations of Epicurus found among the Principal Doctrines and the Vatican Sayings, many others have been passed down to us from a variety of classical sources. This popular arrangement of 87 fragments follows the outline set forth by C. Bailey's 1926 collection—each translation is a consensus of several different editions.

I. Remains Assigned to Certain Books

Concerning Choice and Avoidance
Problems
The Shorter Summary, a.k.a. The Little Epitome
Against Theophrastus
Symposium
On the Goal of Life
On Nature, Books I & XI
From Uncertain Works

II. Remains of Letters

Letter to the Philosophers in Mytilene

Letters to Individuals

To Anaxarchus
To Apelles
To Themista
To Idomenus
To Colotes
To Leontion
To Pythocles

Letters to Uncertain Persons

To a Boy or Girl
Letter Written in His Last Days
Letters Written to Unknown Recipients

III. Fragments from Uncertain Sources

On Philosophy
On Physics
On Ethics