Roman Epicureans froze its sprouts high in the Alps for the Feast of Epicurus. The Stoics provide the moral framework; the Epicureans, the motivation; the praxeologists, the methodology. Roman Epicureans used "otium" for the quiet bliss promised by Epicurus. Other such decadents were Epicureans, Christians, Pascal, and Flaubert. Epicureans observed that indiscriminate indulgence sometimes resulted in negative consequences. "On the Hedonistic Sect" (Epicureans). Epicureans value ataraxia highly because of how they understand pleasure. His main opponents were Epicureans and Christians. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the clinamen of the Epicureans. The four 'schools' were that of the Epicureans, Stocis, Peripatetics, and Academy. Epicureans denied being atheist but their critics insisted. The avoidance or freedom from hardship and fear is ideal to the Epicureans. The strength of Lucian's venom against Alexander is attributed to Alexander's hate of the Epicureans. He took Spinoza and Descartes as the leading Epicureans of his time (in unpublished writings). These criteria formed the method through which Epicureans thought we gained knowledge.