Epicurus Quotes

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• Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
• Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come…
• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and…
• The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there…
• Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real…
• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still…
• As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.
• The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
• 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 is…
• A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality,…
• He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole…
• Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured…
• Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For…
• Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.
• When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.
• If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
• He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
• We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of…

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