Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Epicurus

Epicurus Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)


Epicurus -
- A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus -
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epicurus -
- 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.

Epicurus -
- Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus - from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus - 300 B.C.
- The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Epicurus -
- The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epicurus - from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.