Epicurus Quotes

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. - Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. - Epicurus

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously. - Epicurus

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist. - Epicurus

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly." - Epicurus

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured. - Epicurus

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. - Epicurus

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. - Epicurus

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. - Epicurus