Epicurus Life Quotations

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.

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.

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 a pleasant life.

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

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

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

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

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.

Live your life without attracting attention.

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

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

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. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.