Epicurus Quotes

• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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  Topics in Friendship, Wisdom

  Tags in Happy

• Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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  Topics in Justice

• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Impossible, Pleasant

• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Misfortune, Wise Man

• The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Riches, Possession

• The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Living

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Evil

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Overcoming, Adversity

• To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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

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

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• It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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  Topics in Power

• It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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  Topics in Death

Epicurus (36)

Birth:	341 BC
Death:	270 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Epicurus was born in Samos, Greek. He was a Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. As a boy, he studied philosophy for four years under the Platonist teacher Pamphilus. At the age of eighteen, he went to Athens for his two-year term of military service.

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