"Let no one put off the love and practice of wisdom when young, nor grow tired of it when old. For it is never too early or too late for the health of the soul. Someone who says that the time to love and practice wisdom has not yet come or has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or has passed. Young or old, it is necessary to love and practice wisdom, so that in old age you can be youthful by taking joy in the good things you remember, and likewise in youth you can be mature by not fearing what will come. Reflect on what brings happiness, because if you have that you have everything, but if not you will do everything to attain it."
"Do and practice, then, the things I have always recommended to you, holding them to be the stairway to a beautiful life."
----- from the opening to the Letter to Menoeceus.
Diogenes Laertius' book 10 - the "Principal doctrines", the three letters of Epicurus, and the "Wise Man Sayings", the Vatican Sayings, Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura", the wall of Diogenes of Oinoanda, and Cicero's Torquatus section -- these are the sources that we need to study to get a good picture of the philosophy and to know what wisdom Epicurus speaks of -- So first studying and then implementing (practicing).
The last paragraph of the Letter to Menoeceus says this:
"So practice these and similar things day and night, by yourself and with a like-minded friend, and you will never be disturbed whether waking or sleeping, and you will live as a god among men: for a man who lives in the midst of immortal goods is unlike a merely mortal being."
I think that this recommendation to practice (as well as study) together with another is a great way to bring deeper learning and make it an enjoyable experience.
And going forward there will be greater and greater clarity, so that the philosophy will be accessed with greater ease.
Letter to Menoeceus text source:
https://monadnock.net/epicurus/letter.html
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