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.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
More Epicurus Quotes
-
-
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS -
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUS -
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUS -
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUS -
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.
EPICURUS -
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 -
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUS -
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
EPICURUS -
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 -
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUS -
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUS -
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUS -
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
EPICURUS -
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.
EPICURUS -
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUS -
Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
EPICURUS -
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
EPICURUS -
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUS -
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS -
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUS -
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.
EPICURUS -
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.
EPICURUS -
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUS -
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EPICURUS -
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 -
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUS