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en-wikipedia-org-1252		Epicurus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13255	1730	63	Epicurus was an extremely prolific writer.[118][116][62][66] According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote around 300 treatises on a variety of subjects.[116][62] More original writings of Epicurus have survived to the present day than of any other Hellenistic Greek philosopher.[66] Nonetheless, the vast majority of everything he wrote has now been lost[118][116][62] and most of what is known about Epicurus's teachings come from the writings of his later followers, particularly the Roman poet Lucretius.[62] The only surviving complete works by Epicurus are three relatively lengthy letters, which are quoted in their entirety in Book X of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the Principal Doctrines (Κύριαι Δόξαι), which are likewise preserved through quotation by Diogenes Laërtius, and the Vatican Sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the Vatican Library that was first discovered in 1888.[62] In the Letter to Herodotus and the Letter to Pythocles, Epicurus summarizes his philosophy on nature and, in the Letter to Menoeceus, he summarizes his moral teachings.[62] Numerous fragments of Epicurus's lost thirty-seven volume treatise On Nature have been found among the charred papyrus fragments at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.[62][66] Scholars first began attempting to unravel and decipher these scrolls in 1800, but the efforts are painstaking and are still ongoing.[62]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1252.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1252.txt