Top Epicurus Quotes

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was h...

As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.[]

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.