Epicurus
Epicurus
Epicuruswas an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
pain taught pleasure
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
life pleasure ends
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
numbers void limits
Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.
worry easy endure
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
choices return pleasure
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.
judging choices feelings
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.
suffering doe philosopher
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
lions drink
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
friendship happiness mean
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
death art philosophical
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
life easy possession
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
mind peace-of-mind
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
soul age too-late
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
friendship relationship leadership
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.