31 Quotations by Epicurus
- 1. A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mob ...
- 2. A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the though ...
- 3. Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- 4. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was on ...
- 5. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which h ...
- 6. I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approv ...
- 7. I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far re ...
- 8. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
- 9. If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- 10. In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
- 11. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich t ...
- 12. It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
- 13. It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is imposs ...
- 14. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- 15. It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all ...
- 16. It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
- 17. Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
- 18. Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by rea ...
- 19. Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
- 20. Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession ...
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