Epicurus

Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE)

"We say that pleasure is the starting-point and the end of living blissfully. For we recognize pleasure as a good which is primary and innate."

• From Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus, translated in Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics by A. A. Long (University of California Press, 1986).

Take a look at more philosophy quotes, HERE.

Check out other Greek quotes, HERE.

Glance through the ancient quote picture section, HERE.

Return to the quote picture home page, HERE.   

Epicurus

Epicurus (Founder of Epicureanism, lived 341-270 BCE)

"Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved lacks sensation; and that which lacks sensation is no concern to us."

• From Epicurus' Principle Doctrines in Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics, edited by A. A. Long.

Find more quote pictures on our official website gallery, here.

Epicurus

Epicurus (341-270 BCE)
From Principal Doctrines (Kuriai doxai)

"Of all the things which wisdom secures for the attainment of happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Find more quote pictures on our official website, here.