Famous Epicurus Quotations

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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
by Epicurus
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
by Epicurus
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
by Epicurus
"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."
by Epicurus
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
by Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."
by Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."
by Epicurus
"Don't spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."
by The Vatican Sayings Epicurus
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
by Epicurus
"He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others."
by Epicurus The Vatican Sayings
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
by Thomas Jefferson
"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most."
by Epicurus
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
by 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."
by Epicurus
"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
by Epicurus
"Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little."
by Epicurus
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
by Epicurus
"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."
by Epicurus
"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."
by Epicurus
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
by Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
by Epicurus
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs..."
by Epicurus
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
by Epicurus
"All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal."
by Epicurus
"Eat, drink and be merry... For tommorrow we die."
by Epicurus
"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."
by Epicurus
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
by Epicurus
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
by Epicurus
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
by Epicurus
"Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we ..."
by Epicurus
"When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment—as some thin..."
by Epicurus


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