Quotes from Epicurus

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

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.

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

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

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.