277 Quotes by Epicurus

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

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.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

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?