Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Epicurus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epicurus
Philosopher
Epíkouros
Epikouros
Death
Pleasant
Doe
Necessarily
Men
Neither
Pleasantest
Time
Choose
Prefers
Life
Amount
Longest
Food
Largest
Wise
Rejects
Rather
Fears
More quotes by Epicurus
I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
Epicurus
The things you really need are few and easy to come by but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.
Epicurus
Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.
Epicurus
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
Epicurus
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
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus
There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
Epicurus
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
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
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
Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
Epicurus
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
But the universe is infinite.
Epicurus
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Epicurus
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Epicurus
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.
Epicurus
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
Epicurus
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
Epicurus
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
Epicurus
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
Epicurus
