Quotes from Epicurus
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
— Epicurus
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
— Epicurus
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
— Epicurus
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epicurus
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
— Epicurus
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
— Epicurus
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
— Epicurus
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
— Epicurus
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
— Epicurus
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
— Epicurus
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
— Epicurus