Epicurus
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.Collection: Being Thankful
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.Collection: Pain
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.Collection: Science
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.Collection: Attitude
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.Collection: Fancy
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.Collection: Long
Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.Collection: Understanding
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.Collection: Pain
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.Collection: Goal
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.Collection: Independent
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.Collection: Death
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.Collection: Death
The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.Collection: Soul
If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?Collection: Powerful
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.Collection: Men
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.Collection: Wind
Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.Collection: Wisdom
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.Collection: Being Happy
Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.Collection: Ambition