Epicurus

"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."

"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?"

"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."

"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."

"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."

"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?"

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

"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."

"Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore."

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."

"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."

"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."