Epicurus Quotes

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Death means nothing to us

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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

The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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

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

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.

To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries.

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.

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