Principal Doctrines Quotes

“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 pleasantly.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“Natural justice is a covenant for mutual benefit, to not harm one another or be harmed.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“The just person enjoys. the greatest peace of mind, while the unjust is full of the utmost disquietude.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“Ὁ τῆς φύσεως πλοῦτος καὶ ὥρισται καὶ εὐπόριστός ἐστιν͵ ὁ δὲ τῶν κενῶν δοξῶν εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκπίπτει.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

“Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.”
― Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

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