If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus More Quotes by Epicurus More Quotes From Epicurus Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure Epicurus endureeasyworry We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it Epicurus missing The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant. Epicurus wisedoemen Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them. Epicurus wisdomwisemen Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary. Epicurus unnecessarythanksblessed Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink. Epicurus birthrealizingmen The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. Epicurus crowdsphilosophicalshould We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously. Epicurus 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. Epicurus unhappymenthinking Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city. Epicurus securityhumanscities Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury. Epicurus engagementindependentjustice Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus soulagetoo-late To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. Epicurus drinklions The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. Epicurus salvationsin 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. Epicurus dyingevildeath There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. Epicurus philosophicaljusticemen Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer. Epicurus painexpectationsevil 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. Epicurus strongprayergod For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. Epicurus have-confidencedifficultimpossible The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal. Epicurus voidtermsoul
