Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the… — 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
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“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
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — 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
