Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. — Epicurus Copy Share
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master… — Epicurus Copy Share
“The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are… — Epicurus Copy Share
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. — Epicurus Copy Share
Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one… — Epicurus Copy Share
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. — Epicurus Copy Share
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up… — Epicurus Copy Share
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus Copy Share
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not… — Epicurus Copy Share
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of… — Epicurus Copy Share
If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they… — Epicurus Copy Share
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. — Epicurus Copy Share
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 Copy Share
