Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.
For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends.
Born: 341 BC, Samos, Greece
Died: 270 BC, Athens, Greece
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.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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.
