More quotes by Epicurus

"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."
"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."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."
"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."