Quotes from Epicurus

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Many friends are the key to happiness

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

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.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Live your life without attracting attention.

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

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

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.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.