Epicurus Quotes: 18

• 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.

• The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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

• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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

• 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 .

• Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

  A Guide To Happiness

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

• Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

• 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.

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

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

  The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

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

• The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

  Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

• The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

  Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

• Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore.