Epicurus Quotes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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.

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.

Epicurus

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

Epicurus

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

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.

Epicurus

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

Epicurus

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

Epicurus