17 Quotes By Epicurus


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

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

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

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

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus on fear

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

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

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

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus on history

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.
Epicurus on hope

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

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

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

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

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

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus on adversity

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus on wealth