The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and… — 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
Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary. — 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