History was not kind to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus: few of the thinkers so misunderstood the descendants. For many centuries, epicureans have been called gluttony, hedonists, lovers of living for their own pleasure - and all because the philosopher considered pleasure to be the highest good in life. But what really was the pleasure for Epicurus, who called to be content with little and showed his students the path to spiritual serenity? The book of the English philosopher John Sellars truthfully and simply tells about tetrapharmakos - an epicurean teaching that heals from anxieties and fears and is based on atomistic theory." One of the ways to learn to appreciate pleasures is not to abuse them, even when given such an opportunity. It turns out that a certain amount of asceticism will not hurt in life. This does not mean that we should always deny ourselves pleasure. On the contrary, we will moderate our consumption in order to appreciate the excesses when they are. The problem is not the pleasures themselves, but that they are taken for granted."