What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not? — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
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 Image
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image