Quote

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

Epicurus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epicurus
Philosopher
Epíkouros
Epikouros
Ends
Defined
Good
Beginning
Highest
Taught
Pleasure
Freedom
Pain
Epicurus
Living
Happily

More quotes by 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
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus
Image
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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
Without confidence, there is no friendship.
Epicurus
Image
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
Epicurus
Image
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Epicurus
Image
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
Epicurus
Image
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
Epicurus
Image
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
Image
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
Epicurus
Image
Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
Epicurus
Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.
Epicurus
Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
Epicurus
Image
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus
Image
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Epicurus
Image
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Epicurus
Image
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
Epicurus
Image
No pleasure is evil in itself but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
Epicurus
Image
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Epicurus