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Epicurus’s Three Steps To Happiness

Sisyphus 55 | December 14, 2025



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Sources:

https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/epicurus/

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/5-tips-from-epicurus-to-help-you-live-a-happier-life-a81859cf60c4

Study: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/

https://iep.utm.edu/epicur/

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  2. @realernreeler

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Dayum that ground news ad felt like a majority of the video… loved the content n I understand this is a Lil dated but dam.. the energy was put in that ad n not the commentary!
    All love still loved the video!

  15. @Bhubnipz

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    When I learn about a new philosopher, there is always some piece of his philosophy that makes me think “huh, this guy is kinda describing how I view the world”

    But holy shit, when you hear some dude condense you’re entire personal philosophy in a few neat sentences…it’s something else.

    Really makes you realize that original thoughts are a non-renewable resource in the age of the internet. You are able to hear the words men who lived over 2,000 years ago, along with the opportunity to discover one who not only had a similar perspective but also the insight to study and explain it.

    It makes me wonder if it’s possible that Epicurus benefitted from a similar breakthrough. Reading some random record of a man who lived a thousand years before him that left him apprehensive to the realization that an ancient man, living in such a simpler time, could have predicted your perspective. The one perspective you think is entirely unique.

  19. @Paraselene_Tao

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    I'll watch your video a second time.

    The thing I like the most about Epicurus is the Tetrapharmakos. You brought up "Don't worry about death" but the other 3 parts of the "Tetra"-pharmakos (four part treatment) are critically important. Don't fear God, what is good is easy to get, and what is bad is easy to endure. IIRC, the Tetrapharmakos is a brief summation of basic Epicurean beliefs created by the Romans who really liked Epicureanism.

    Diogenes Laertius wrote in his book of eminent philophers a 40 point list of important Epicurean beliefs. You can find it online by searching for Sovran Maxims.

  22. @dangerjoe8911

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    On Friendship.
    "And if I come too late and do not manage,
    to appear to my friend as savior.
    Then death shall unite me with him!
    So that bloody tyrant can't take the glory,
    of having made a friend break the duty he's sworn to his friend.
    So he might aswell kill two victims,
    and believe in love and loyalty"

    Schiller, part of "die Bürgschaft", translated by myself.

  26. @frankm.2850

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Any recommendations for good books on Epicureanism? There are a number of excellent books on stoicism by William B Irvine and massimo piggliuccu (not sure if I spelled that correctly) but I’ve yet to find anything similar about Epicureanism.

  27. @jamespereira8077

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Hey man,
    Just wanted to say that background music is so chill, love it (digging the new style)
    Also, great content as usual, I can see a rise in my mental health thanks to your videos,
    Cheers mate

  31. @jeffreylundin4716

    December 14, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Well, sure.. if and when you want to be happy… but I have come so far in life as to not always want to be happy… sometimes I want things to go wrong so that I get stressed and have to figure out how to get past challenges… but anyway.. just my two cents.. good video.

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