About Epicurus: Epicurus is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinit...
27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.
Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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.
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 does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
