277 Quotes by Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

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

We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again, using the feeling as the standard by which we judge every good.

Plain fare gives as much pleasure as a costly diet, while bread and water confer the highest possible pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips.

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

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.