The Essential Epicurus Quotes

“The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Great abundance is heaped up as the result of brutalizing labor, but a miserable life is the result.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“We must not pretend to be philosophers, but be philosophers in truth. For we do not stand in need of the appearance of health but of true health.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Your anxiety is in direct proportion to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Nothing is sufficient for the man to whom the sufficient is too little.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“We do not need the help of our friends so much as the confidence that our friends will help us.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus

“Necessity is an evil thing, but there is no necessity to live beneath the yoke of necessity.”
― Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus