Epicurus

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

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 greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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 time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

A man who causes fear cannot be _x000D_ free from fear.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.