Dacă ai o grădină și o bibliotecă, ai tot ce-ți trebuie. - Cicero

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Epicurus however is a more troublesome opponent, because he is a combination of two different sorts of pleasure, and because besides himself and his friends there have been so many later champions of his theory, which somehow or other enlists the support of that least competent but most powerful adherent, the general public.

for it is not having insufficient knowledge, but persisting a long time in insufficient knowledge that is shameful; since the one is assumed to be a disease common to all, but the other is assumed to be a flaw to an individual.