Quotes from Epicurus

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

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

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

Yeast will not only rise bread, but also the human spirit -Jim Carey

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.

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?

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.

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.

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

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

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

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

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

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

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

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

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

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.