Top 180 Epicurus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .”

— Epicurus

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3. “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

4. “Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?”

— Epicurus

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5. “Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

— Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

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7. “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

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

— Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

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11. “Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”

— Epicurus

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12. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”

— Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

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14. “Being happy is knowing how to be content with little.”

— Epicurus

15. “The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

— Epicurus

16. “Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.”

— Epicurus

17. “The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.”

— Epicurus

18. “Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.”

— Epicurus

19. “If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.”

— Epicurus

20. “But the universe is infinite.”

— Epicurus

21. “Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.”

— Epicurus

22. “Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one’s old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one’s soul’s healthy.”

— Epicurus

23. “Don’t fear god, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.”

— Epicurus

24. “The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.”

— Epicurus

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25. “The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.”

— Epicurus

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

— Epicurus

27. “If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

— Epicurus

28. “Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.”

— Epicurus

29. “God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.”

— Epicurus

30. “Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

— Epicurus

31. “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

32. “There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.”

— Epicurus

33. “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.”

— Epicurus

34. “Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.”

— Epicurus

35. “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

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

— Epicurus

37. “The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”

— Epicurus

38. “Many friends are the key to happiness.”

— Epicurus

39. “In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.”

— Epicurus

40. “I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.”

— Epicurus

41. “It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.”

— Epicurus

42. “Do everything like someone is gazing at you.”

— Epicurus

43. “Virtue consisteth of three parts, – temperance, fortitude, and justice.”

— Epicurus

44. “We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness...”

— Epicurus

45. “Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.”

— Epicurus

46. “I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.”

— Epicurus

47. “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.”

— Epicurus

48. “Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.”

— Epicurus

49. “Live your life without attracting attention.”

— Epicurus

50. “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.”

— Epicurus