Epicurean Quote by Epicurus Download Open image “Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.” — Epicurus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epicurean Epicureanism Highest Inspirational Pleasure Stranger Wells
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best. — Catherine Bramwell-Booth 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
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps.… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
