Epicurus Philosophy Quotes

#1. Death means nothing to us

Epicurus

#2. After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

William Benton Clulow

#3. The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

Epicurus

#4. Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

#5. The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Luke Slattery

#6. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Epicurus

#8. I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#10. Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Epicurus