277 Quotes by Epicurus

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Many friends are the key to happiness

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.