"The Lord will not let good people go hungry, but he will keep the wicked from getting what they want" (10:3). This passage shows the world as a just world, that God/dess will keep things even keel, even though this is not the case. Things are unfair sometimes, and using observation on personal life experiences, bad things can happen to good people...
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Although this passage does teach that if you choose to be good, you will be taken care of, and if you choose to be wicked you will not always get what you want. There are two choices here on how to live, good or wicked, and good judgment would be choosing to be good. It encourages again the need for right decision making...
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Hedonism He also believes that the happiest people consist of those who have nothing to fear from those around them as he mentions in his last doctrine: “Those who were best able to provide themselves with the means of security against their neighbors, being thus in possession of the surest guarantee, passed the most agreeable life in each other’s society; and their enjoyment of the fullest intimacy was such that, if one of them died before his time, the survivors did not mourn his death as if it called for sympathy...	2 / 556
Aristotle and Epicurus His thought was if we did not have any desires, or longing for something, we would not be unhappy. Eliminating desires can then lead to tranquility, the highest state of being in his mind...	3 / 692
Epicurus he moved to the island of Lesbos and taught there, but his radical beliefs caused discontent in the community, and he left after a year. He based a school in Lampsacus before returning to Athens in 306 BC...	2 / 453
How significant is it that Croesus is not Greek, in Herodotus' Histories? He says in his opening paragraph: "Herodotus of Halicarnassuss here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not be forgotten in time, and great and marvellous deeds - some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians - may not be without their glory?...	2 / 322