Epicurus Quotes

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.