Epicurus Quotes

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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

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

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

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

A man who causes fear cannot be
free from fear.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.