Quotes by "Epicurus"

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.

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

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

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.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

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

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

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

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.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

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

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

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. 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 present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are.

Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.