Epicurus Quotes - Page 3

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

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

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

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

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

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

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

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

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

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

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

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

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.