277 Quotes by Epicurus

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

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

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

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.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

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

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

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