Epicurus Quotes
Greek philosopher who taught that pleasure, rightly understood, means friendship, simplicity and freedom from fear. His garden school in Athens shaped centuries of thought about happiness. Below are 15 of the most loved Epicurus quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their mentality.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young, nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.