Quotes on Epicureanism

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.

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.

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

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

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