Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
EPICURUSI was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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.
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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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