All Epicurus Quotes
- The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. All
- My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… Amid
- Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… Concern
- Where I am death is not, where death is I am not. Death
- Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. Freedom
- In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. Defeated
- Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control… Affair
- Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor. Becomes
- A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will… Belief
- When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… Accordance
- Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. Abundance
- It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. Ask
- Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. Contract
- A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite. Circumscribed
- There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into… Atoms
- The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. Beginning
- Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. Aim
- Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining… Contracts
- He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing . Greed
- Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Able