Quotes by Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

Courage

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

Hope

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

Life

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Friendship

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Happiness

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

Life

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Life

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

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Friendship

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

— Epicurus

Happiness

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.

— Epicurus

Life

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

— Epicurus

Life

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

— Epicurus

Wisdom

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

Courage

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

— Epicurus

Wisdom

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

— Epicurus

Friendship

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

— Epicurus

Education