Epicurus
Epicurean philosophy
Sayings by Epicurus
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.
Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensation, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.
The wise man is not perturbed by the most disturbing things.
We must, therefore, be careful how we choose our pleasures, and how we avoid our pains.
The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated.
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
The quantity of pleasure is to be judged by the quantity of pain it removes.
The wise man is not concerned with the quantity of life, but with its quality.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When that state is present, pleasure can be varied, but it cannot be increased, nor can it be diminished, so long as it is not disturbed by pain.
A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not an easy thing to do without at the same time becoming a slave to mobs or kings.
The greatest good is prudence; it is even more precious than philosophy itself.
Against all things it is possible to provide security, but as against death we all live in an unwalled city.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The pleasure which is sought after by the many is not true pleasure, but only the absence of pain.
We should not pretend to be philosophers, but be philosophers in reality.
The end of all our actions is to be free from pain and fear.
Live unknown.
It is better to be unhappy in a rational way than happy in an irrational way.