Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epicurus
Philosopher
Epíkouros
Epikouros
Agreements
Injustice
Beasts
Among
Unwilling
Justice
Injured
True
Tribes
Cannot
Unable
Also
Agreement
Thing
Injure
Make
Beast
More quotes by Epicurus
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.
Epicurus
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
Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
Epicurus
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Epicurus
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
Epicurus
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus
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
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
Epicurus
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
Epicurus
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Epicurus
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
The term incorporeal is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.
Epicurus
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
Epicurus
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
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
Epicurus
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Epicurus
Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
Epicurus
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
Epicurus
