Epicurus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.”

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

“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”

“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”

“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.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”