The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and…

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

— Epicurus

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut…

— Heraclitus

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

— Epicurus

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” –G. K.…

— Timothy Ferriss

“And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher…

— Lucretius

“Epicurus: “If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.”

— Seneca

After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality…

— William Benton Clulow

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and human affairs.…

— Yaakov Malkin

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements alone will…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live…

— Daniel Klein

“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It…

— Benoît Duteurtre

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and…

— Catherine Wilson

“Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.”

— Thornton Wilder

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose…

— Lucian