Epicurus > Quotes

“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.”
― Epicurus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

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

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not.”
― Epicurus

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
― Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness

“Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.”
― Epicurus

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us
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― Epicurus

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

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
― Epicurus

“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
― Epicurus

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
― Epicurus

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus

“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.”
― Epicurus

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
― Epicurus

“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.”
― Epicurus

“Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are.”
― Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

“do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”
― Epicurus

“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
― Epicurus

“Orang bodoh tidak puas dengan semua yang dimilikinya.
Mereka menyusahkan hati dengan semua yang tidak dimilikinya.”
― Epicurus

“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”
― Epicurus

“Dont fear God, dont worry about death; whats qood is easy to qet, & whats terrible is easy to endure.”
― Epicurus

“I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”
― Epicurus

“All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help”
― Epicurus

“If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.”
― Epicurus

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.”
― Epicurus

“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”
― Epicurus

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”
― Epicurus

“Kesenangan tidak jahat, tetapi cara menghasilkan sebagian kesenangan itu ada yang mengakibatkan masalah yang besarnya berlipat-lipat daripada kesenangan yang diperoleh.”
― Epicurus

“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.”
― Epicurus

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
― Epicurus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
― Epicurus

“THE NOBLE MAN IS CHIEFLY CONCERNED WITH WISDOM AND FRIENDSHIP;OF THESE,THE FORMER IS A MORTAL GOOD,THE LATTER AN IMMORTAL ONE.”
― Epicurus, Letters and Sayings of Epicurus

“Mereka yang pernah menolong orang-orang yang kesusahan, menginsafi bahwa memberi lebih baik daripada menerima.”
― Epicurus

“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.”
― Epicurus

“Jangan iri kepada siapa pun, karena orang baik tidak layak diirikan.
Sedangkan orang jahat, semakin mereka makmur, semakin mereka merusak diri sendiri.”
― Epicurus

“Bukan kekurangan yang menyakitkan,
tetapi menanggung rasa iri yang timbul dari angan-angan yang sia-sia.”
― Epicurus

“Ketidakbahagiaan datang lewat ketakutan atau keinginan yang tidak terkendali.”
― Epicurus

“[A] right understanding that death is nothing
to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it
an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for
immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has
truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.”
― Epicurus

“Orang yang ingin hidup tenteram, jangan menimbulkan kegalauan bagi dirinya sendiri mau pun bagi orang lain.”
― Epicurus

“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another”
― Epicurus

“При всяко желание си поставяй следните въпроси: какво ще стане, ако пожеланото от мен се осъществи и какво – ако не се осъществи”
― Epicurus

“Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.”
― Epicurus

“Żyjąc o chlebie i wodzie, przyjemności ciała wywołują we mnie grozę, gardzę luksusowymi rozkoszami, nie ze względu na nie, ale na niewygody z nimi związane.”
― Epicurus

“It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.”
― Epicurus

“He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
― Epicurus

“Tidak mungkin kita hidup bahagia kalau kita hidup dengan sembrono,
tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang layak dan tidak berlaku adil.
Orang yang tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang baik, tidak bisa hidup dengan senang.”
― Epicurus

“Jangan rusakkan yang kita miliki dengan mendambakan apa yang tidak kita miliki.
Ingatlah bahwa apa yang kita miliki pun merupakan hadiah keberuntungan.”
― Epicurus

“Meski bisa mengelak dari hukuman, orang yang melarikan diri tidak mungkin bisa hidup tenang, karena mereka selalu dikejar ketakutan akan masa yang akan datang mau pun masa kini.”
― Epicurus

“Buah terbaik dari keadilan adalah ketenteraman.”
― Epicurus