Epicurus' most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 59 votes from people: Death is nothing to us: while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not. · Every man leaves this life as if he had just been born. · Of all the things wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is friendship.. (Updated Sep 27, 2019.)
"Death is nothing to us", bread and water, friendship as the greatest good and "live unnoticed": the most quoted sayings of Epicurus, with the ancient text they come from (Letter to Menoeceus, Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings).
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Top 12
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Death is nothing to us: while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not.
Letter to Menoeceus.
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Every man leaves this life as if he had just been born.
Vatican Sayings, 60.
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Of all the things wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is friendship.
Principal Doctrines, XXVII.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Vatican Sayings, 68.
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Just as the wise man does not choose the most food but the most pleasant, so he does not seek the longest life but the most pleasant.
Letter to Menoeceus.
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Poverty measured by the goal of nature is great wealth; wealth without limits is great poverty.
Vatican Sayings, 25.
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I am overflowing with bodily pleasure when I have bread and water.
Fragment preserved by Stobaeus.
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8
Live unnoticed.
Quoted by Plutarch in "Is Live Unknown a Wise Precept?".
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Let no one delay studying philosophy while young, nor weary of it when old.
Letter to Menoeceus.
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Among other evils, the fool has this one: he is always beginning to live.
Quoted by Seneca in the Letters to Lucilius (XIII, 16).
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher that relieves no human suffering.
Fragment preserved by Porphyry.
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12
In a philosophical discussion, the loser gains more, since he learns more.
Vatican Sayings, 74.
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