black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUS

Concern Death Existence Life
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
EPICURUS

Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

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

Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUS

Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUS

Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUS

Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
EPICURUS

Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUS

Friendship Happiness Important Life
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUS

Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUS

Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUS

Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUS

Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
EPICURUS

Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS

Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
EPICURUS

Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Epicurus Quotes