Epicurus

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

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

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Why should I fear death?_x000D_ If I am, then death is not._x000D_ If Death is, then I am not._x000D_ Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?_x000D_ Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear._x000D_ Religious tyranny did domineer._x000D_ At length the mighty one of Greece_x000D_ Began to assent the liberty of man.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures_x000D_ _x000D_ are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.