Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care 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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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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.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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