More quotes by Epicurus

"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."
"Il culmine del piacere è la pura e semplice distruzione del dolore."
"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back."
"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."