epicurus Quotes

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”

“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”

“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”