Epicurus Quotes

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

Relationship, Courage, Happy

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.
Epicurus

Hope, Remember, Once

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

Friendship, Help, Confidence

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

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

Enjoy, Abundance

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

Death, Long, Here

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus

Crowd, Approve, Cater

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

Nothing, Enough, Whom

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.
Epicurus

Fear, Rich, Free

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

Art, Living, Dying

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

Friendship, Wisdom, Happy

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

Power, Himself, Gods

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

Happy, Away, Desires

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

Life, Cannot, Free

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

Learn, Far, Knew

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.
Epicurus

Life, Live, Living

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus

Rather, Second, Rome

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

History, Greater, Glory

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

Wise, Fool, Prosperity

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

Death, Men, Live

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus

Reputation, Storms, Gain

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

Justice, Harm, Compact

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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Life, Wise, Greatest

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
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Loss, Riches, Possession

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

Time, Yourself, Crowd

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 341 BC

Died: 271 BC

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