I may note here that the power of Epicurism as a faith depended also largely on the directness, downrightness, and audacity of its system, working on minds weary of philosophers' disputations and political quarrels.
Philodemus, the contemporary of Lucretius, expressly asserts this,[760] and even insists that Epicurism gave a religious sanction to morality which was absent in Stoicism.
Thus for the Roman's destitution in regard to God Epicurism could find no remedy, and as a consequence it could provide no religious sanction for his conduct in life.
He had passed forty without gourmand tastes, and no man takes to epicurism after that.
Epicurism was scarcely more prevalent during the decline of the Roman empire than it is at this day amongst some of the wealthy and noble youths of Britain.
If I might judge from my own experience, I should attribute fashionable epicurism in a great measure to ennui.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epicurism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aesthetics; appetite; expertise; hedonism; luxury; unchastity; virtu; virtuosity
