Epicurus

Quotes

• “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevol...”
• “He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the...”
• “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when deat...”
• “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you ...”
• “The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infin...”
• “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
• “Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
• “If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”
• “Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”
• “It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
• “Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore.”
• “He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”
• “Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.”
• “The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”