Epicurus famous quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-- Epicurus

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
-- Epicurus

#Life #Friendship #Relationship

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
-- Epicurus

#Food #Looks #Drink

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
-- Epicurus

#Death

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
-- Epicurus

#Boyfriend #Being Happy #Courage

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus

#Death #Military #Long

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
-- Epicurus

#Intelligent #Religion #Atheism

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-- Epicurus

#Gratitude #Money #Life And Love

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
-- Epicurus

#Wise #Wisdom #Philosophical

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
-- Epicurus

#Future #Men #He Man

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Gains

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
-- Epicurus

#Inspirational #History #Aristocracy

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-- Epicurus

#Confidence #Power #Men

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-- Epicurus

#Spiritual #Religious #Atheist

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
-- Epicurus

#Mind #Peace Of Mind

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
-- Epicurus

#Suffering #Doe #Philosopher

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
-- Epicurus

#Death #Art #Philosophical

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
-- Epicurus

#Appreciate #Atheism #Crowds

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-- Epicurus

#God #Prayer #Humility

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
-- Epicurus

#Friendship #Relationship #Leadership

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 no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
-- Epicurus

#Soul #Age #Too Late

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophical #Loss #Envy

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
-- Epicurus

#Men #Community #Civilized

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
-- Epicurus

#Pain #Choices #Soul

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, for all such things imply weakness.
-- Epicurus

#Blessed #Weakness #Trouble

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
-- Epicurus

#Understanding #Desire #Please

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-- Epicurus

#Life #Happiness #Wisdom

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophical #Skills #Storm

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
-- Epicurus

#Littles #Satisfied

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
-- Epicurus

#Happiness #Money #Philosophical

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 a mortal brew to drink.
-- Epicurus

#Men #Birth #Realizing

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
-- Epicurus

#Life #Easy #Possession

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
-- Epicurus

#Attitude #Rome #Village

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
-- Epicurus

#Lions #Drink

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
-- Epicurus

#Math #Mind

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
-- Epicurus

#Soul #Noble

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
-- Epicurus

#Order #Joy #Body

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
-- Epicurus

#Pain #Evil #Expectations

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophy #Delay #Study

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
-- Epicurus

#Freedom #Self #Liberty

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophical #Men #Justice

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
-- Epicurus

#Infinity #Wealth #Easy

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
-- Epicurus

#Philosophy

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
-- Epicurus

#Ambition #Men #Tranquility

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
-- Epicurus

#Friendship #Happiness #Mean

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
-- Epicurus

#Needs #Helping

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
-- Epicurus

#Pain #Teaching #Mean