Horace 2.14

No one escapes old age/death.
Nothing follows you after death.
Live for today.

Fugit nemo aevum.
Nihil sequi te ex morte.
Vivit hodie ad.

Horace 1.11

Look life is escaping.
Every minute perishes,
Dont trust in tomorrow.

Vita ecce fugit.
Omnis minutus peret,
Nec crede cras in.

Epicurean Philosophy

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie relates to Epicurean Philosophy because the book makes life seem like a cycle that repeat itself. For example, the book starts off having the mouse get a cookie then milk. Then after the mouse did many other things, he got another cookie. Next, you the reader, can assume what the mouse is going to ask for next. A List by Arnold Lobel relates to Epicurean Philosophy because it shows people to live your life right now and don't worry about whats going to happen in the next moment or tomorrow. For example, Toad writes a list of things he wants to do but when he goes outside the paper blows away. So, what he does is sits down and does nothing until he can think of what was on that paper. This is a perfect example because you can plan your whole life out and one little thing can go wrong or change and you now are completely lost. It's Mine relates to Epicurean Philosophy because it shows how people can go through one traumatic event which will change their view in life. For example, the three frogs on the island claim that its theirs but when a flood destroys the island and the island returns more beautiful then before, they all say it is our island. They change their minds because they now know how everything can change in an instance.

Epicurean

Horace 1.9 is Epicurean in many ways. First of all the poem starts off with you, the reader, noticing all these different sights. All theses sights are saying to embrace everything around you, all the forms in life. He goes on to explain more in detail to accept what is going on right now and not to worry about whats going to happen tomorrow. On important sight is where you see the struggling trees unable to support their leaves. This symbolizes another Epicurean feature. This resembles one of the teachings that the Gods don't care about us and how we will change our ways after this change. The tree is us and the burden is the change that we will, some of us, not be able to coupe with. Next , the poem relates to the Epicurean saying, "...that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily." To live happily, Horace says you have to do the positive and smart things in life and repeat them. The analogy he uses in the poem is to dissolve the chill by replacing wood in the fireplace. One temporary pleasure he speaks of is drinking from the two-handle Sabine Jar. Pleasures are a big part of Epicurean belief because the pleasure should heavily out weigh the pain for someone to live happily. Another pleasure he speaks of is to love as a young boy.