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Epicurus Quotes

“We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.”

“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.”

“Question each of your desires: “What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?”

“We should find solace for misfortune in the happy memory of what has been and in the knowledge that what has been cannot be undone.”

“Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another.”

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“Friendship dances around the world bidding us all to awaken to the recognition of happiness.”

“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.”

“By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul.”

“Unlimited time and limited time afford an equal amount of pleasure, if we measure the limits of that pleasure by reason.”

“No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.”

“Every pain is easy to disregard; for that which is intense is of brief duration, and those bodily pains that last long are mild.”

“What cannot be satisfied is not a man's stomach, as most men think, but rather the false opinion that the stomach requires unlimited filling.”

“The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.”

“Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.”

“I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.”

“If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquility.”

“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.”

“It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.”

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