277 Quotes by Epicurus

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness...

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.