277 Quotes by Epicurus

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.