Quotes from Epicurus

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 pleasantly.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

The just person enjoys. the greatest peace of mind, while the unjust is full of the utmost disquietude.

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

Reality is all things simultaneously, or, in the Greek phrase, it is a process of "becoming" in which even apparently clearcut opposites lose identity and merge into each other.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

It's a great thing learning how to die.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.