277 Quotes by Epicurus

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.