277 Quotes by Epicurus

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.