Epicurus Famous Quotes
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most."
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
Epicurus Quotations
"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
Pat Paulsen
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki
I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you
Robin Green
May you always live in interesting times.
Chinese Curse
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards
"When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Frederick Douglas
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
La Rochefoucauld