Epicurus Quotes
Most popular Epicurus Quotes

Pleasure is the greatest good.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

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

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

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

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down by adversity, is generally abject and base.

As the touchstone which tries gold, but is not itself tried by gold, such is a man who has the true standard of judgment.

When we have only a little we should be satisfied; for this reason, that those best enjoy abundance who are contented with the least.

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