Quote

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Epicurus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epicurus
Philosopher
Epíkouros
Epikouros
Seeing
Happiness
Everything
Must
Absent
Make
Possess
Things
Pursue
Therefore
Present

More quotes by Epicurus

Image
All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
Epicurus
Image
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
Image
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.
Epicurus
Image
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.
Epicurus
Image
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
Epicurus
Image
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
Epicurus
Image
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
Epicurus
Image
Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
Epicurus
Image
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.
Epicurus
Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
Epicurus
Image
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
Epicurus
Image
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
Epicurus
Image
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.
Epicurus
Image
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
Epicurus
Image
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Epicurus
Image
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
Image
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus
Image
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Epicurus
Image
As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.
Epicurus
Image
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
Epicurus