Quotes from Epicurus

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Bukan kekurangan yang menyakitkan, tetapi menanggung rasa iri yang timbul dari angan-angan yang sia-sia.

Ketidakbahagiaan datang lewat ketakutan atau keinginan yang tidak terkendali.

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 pleasantly.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Orang yang ingin hidup tenteram, jangan menimbulkan kegalauan bagi dirinya sendiri mau pun bagi orang lain.

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

Non aspetti il giovane a filosofare, né il vecchio di filosofare si stanchi: nessuno è troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

panta rei ("All things are in flux"),

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Today the doctrine of metaphysical free will appears to us as one of those archaic relics of traditional religion that Epicurus and Lucretius should have done their utmost to combat. Moral freedom and determinism are by no means incompatible. Man is himself a causal agent in nature and is morally responsible when he acts "freely," i.e., from his own settled character and in his own capacity as an individual, provided he is exempt from external force or pressure.

The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.

It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Send me a pot of cheese, so that I may be able to indulge myself whenever I wish.

?yj?c o chlebie i wodzie, przyjemno?ci cia?a wywo?uj? we mnie groz?, gardz? luksusowymi rozkoszami, nie ze wzgl?du na nie, ale na niewygody z nimi zwi?zane.

Tidak mungkin kita hidup bahagia kalau kita hidup dengan sembrono, tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang layak dan tidak berlaku adil. Orang yang tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang baik, tidak bisa hidup dengan senang.

Jangan rusakkan yang kita miliki dengan mendambakan apa yang tidak kita miliki. Ingatlah bahwa apa yang kita miliki pun merupakan hadiah keberuntungan.

Meski bisa mengelak dari hukuman, orang yang melarikan diri tidak mungkin bisa hidup tenang, karena mereka selalu dikejar ketakutan akan masa yang akan datang mau pun masa kini.

Buah terbaik dari keadilan adalah ketenteraman.

Death means nothing to us

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

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