Quotes on Epicurean

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

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

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

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

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

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.