Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
More Epicurus Quotes
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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.
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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