Epicureanism Quotes

• 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, Happiness, Wisdom

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

  Epicurus

  Gratitude, Money, Life And Love

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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

  Epicurus

  Death, Art, Philosophical

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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

  Epicurus

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

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• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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

  Epicurus

  Friendship, Relationship, Leadership

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Epicurus

  Confidence, Power, Men

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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

  Epicurus

  Men, Charity, Littles

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• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Omnipotence, If There Is A God

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• We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Exercise, Our Actions, Absent

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

  Epicurus

  Life, Pleasure, Ends

  "Briefing" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Men, Reason

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• Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

  Epicurus

  Soul, Age, Too Late

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.15, Lulu.com

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

  Epicurus

  Life, Easy, Possession

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• 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, Wall, Men

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Stranger, Pleasure, Epicurean

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

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Crowds, Should

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• 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

  Understanding, Desire, Please

  Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

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• 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

  Appreciate, Atheism, Crowds

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• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

  Epicurus

  Being Happy, Thankful, Hope

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Lying, Perspective, Fearless

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