Epicurus Quotes
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
- Epicurus
(Related: Man, Nothing)
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
- Epicurus
(Related: Confidence, Friends, Help)
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
- Epicurus
(Related: Gain, Reputation, Storms)
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
- Epicurus
(Related: Friendship, Wisdom, Possession)
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
- Epicurus
(Related: Loss, Possession)
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
- Epicurus
(Related: Art, Dying, Living)
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
(Related: Difficulty, Glory)
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
- Epicurus
(Related: Fool, Misfortune, Prosperity)
"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."
- Epicurus
(Related: Men, Justice)
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Epicurus
(Related: Courage, Adversity, Being, Relationships)
"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
- Epicurus
(Related: Abundance)
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
- Epicurus
(Related: Power, Gods, Folly, Man)
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
- Epicurus
(Related: Time)
"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
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
- Epicurus
(Related: Confidence, Friends, Help)
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
- Epicurus
(Related: Life, Man, Misfortune, Reason)
"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
(Related: Now)
"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
(Related: Understanding)
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
- Epicurus
(Related: First, Rome)
"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
(Related: Men, God, Evil)
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
- Epicurus
(Related: Man)
"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."
- Epicurus
(Related: Fear, Lying, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Life, Living)
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
- Epicurus
(Related: Death, Men, Security)
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
- Epicurus
(Related: Harm, Justice)
"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
(Related: Death, Concern)