“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
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
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an… — 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
