24 Epicurus Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Greek - Philosopher 341 BC - 270 BC

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Enjoy Abundance Our

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

Death Men City Security

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

Man Power He Gods

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.

You Fear Better Rich

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Confidence Friends Help Need

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Hope You Remember Things

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

Art Living Dying Well

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

Never Understanding Far Learn

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

Man Happy Take Away

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.

Life Impossible Live Living

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

You Time Yourself Should

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

Justice Men Abstract Thing

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

Life Free Easy Cannot

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

Life Wise Man Wise Man

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

Wisdom Friendship Happy Things

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Wise Fool Better Prosperity

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

God Men Evil Forever

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship Confidence Friends Us Our

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death Long Us Here

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Man Nothing Enough Little

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

Justice Kind Harm Compact

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.

Wisdom Health Age Soul

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Wisdom Good Age Time

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Happiness Everything Things Exercise

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