Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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.
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.
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.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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.
The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.
when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts in brief, peace of mind.
