Best Quotes by Epicurus (Top 10)

  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.
  2. 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?
  3. You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
  4. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
  5. Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
  6. It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
  7. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
  8. He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
  9. 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.
  10. I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

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