More quotes by 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."
"Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore."
"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?"
"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back."
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."