Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

— Epicurus

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

— Epicurus

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

— Epicurus

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

— Epicurus

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

— Epicurus

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

— Epicurus

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

— Epicurus

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that…

— Epicurus

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

— Epicurus

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

— Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

— Epicurus

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

— Epicurus

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little..!

— Epicurus

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

— Epicurus

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but,…

— Epicurus

“Two of Epicurus’s early influences, Democritus and Pyrrho, had actually journeyed all the way to what is now India, where they had…

— Epicurus

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of…

— Epicurus

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted…

— Epicurus

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but…

— Epicurus

“The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects…

— Epicurus

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on…

— Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no…

— Epicurus

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions…

— Epicurus

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be…

— Epicurus

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor…

— Epicurus

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I…

— Epicurus

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit…

— Epicurus

It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the…

— Epicurus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he…

— Epicurus

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of…

— Epicurus

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in…

— Epicurus

“Furthermore, the universe consists of bodies in the void. That bodies do exist, our senses attest to; they also permit us to…

— Epicurus

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they…

— Epicurus

“Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and…

— Epicurus

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

— Epicurus

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

— Epicurus

Many friends are the key to happiness

— Epicurus

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

— Epicurus