Epicurus Quotes
Epicurus Quotes
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
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.
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?
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
Vain is the word of a philosopher who does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one’s old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one’s soul’s healthy.
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of 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.
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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Epicurus Famous Quotes on Friendship
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.
Of all the means to ensure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Epicurus Quotes on God
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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?
Short Death Quotes by Epicurus
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Short Life Quotes by Epicurus
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.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Epicurus Quotes on Science
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number… are borne on far out into space.
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.
Epicurus Quotes about Philosophy
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Epicurus Quotes about Religion
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
