Please Ignore

"Even in modern times, the critics of Epicureanism continue to misrepresent it as a lazy-minded, shallow, pleasure-loving, immoral, or godless travesty of real philosophy. In our day the world 'epicureanism' has come to mean its opposite - a pretentious enthusiasm for rare and expensive food and drink. Please have the courage to ignore two thousand years of negative prejudice, and assess this philosophy on its own considerable merits."

P.S. Quote is from Hutchinson in: Inwood and Gerson, 'The Epicurus Reader. Selected Writings and Testimonia' (1994). The painting is from Rubens, 'The Feast of Acheloüs' (around 1615).