25 Quotes About Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Live unknown," said Epicurus. The best people live simply and quietly and hardly seem to exist.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Death means nothing to us