Author: Epicurus

Quotes

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

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

- Epicurus

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.

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

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

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

- Epicurus

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

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

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.

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

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

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

- Epicurus

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

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

- Epicurus

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

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

- Epicurus

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

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

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