Source: The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Epicureanism Quotes
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Epicureanism Quotes
“We desire not only that we get something, but that we be pleased when we get it.”
Source: Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life
Source: ANNA KARENINA
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
Source: The Art of Happiness
Source: What Is Ancient Philosophy?
Source: The Dud Avocado
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
Source: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Source: The Epicurus Reader
“Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Source: Principal Doctrines
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Source: Principal Doctrines
Source: The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.”
“Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.”