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 Epicurus



Epicurus



Greek philosopher


Quotes

Quotes by Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
300 B.C.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


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