Quotes from Epicurus

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

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

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

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

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

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

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

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

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

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Stay calm and pedal on