Epicurus
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.Collection: Understanding
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.Collection: Infinity
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.Collection: Inspirational
He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.Collection: Littles
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.Collection: Tomorrow
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.Collection: Pursue
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.Collection: Philosophical
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.Collection: Men
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .Collection: Self
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.Collection: Men
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.Collection: Philosophical
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.Collection: Life
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.Collection: Wise
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too littleCollection: Littles
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.Collection: Lions
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.Collection: Art
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.Collection: Men
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.Collection: Giving
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.Collection: Carpe Diem
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Collection: Death
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.Collection: Impossible
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.Collection: Sake
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.Collection: Fear
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.Collection: Sin
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.Collection: Wise
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.Collection: Men
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?Collection: What If
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)Collection: Care
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.Collection: Adversity
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.Collection: Men
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.Collection: Life
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.Collection: Future
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.Collection: Suffering
He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.Collection: Pain
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.Collection: Wise
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Collection: Atheist
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endureCollection: Worry
An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.Collection: Men
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.Collection: Friendship
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.Collection: Men
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.Collection: Believe
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.Collection: Where You Are
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Life
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.Collection: Justice
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.Collection: Men
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.Collection: Men
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.Collection: Stranger