277 Quotes by Epicurus

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.