277 Quotes by Epicurus

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.