Wisdom Quote by Epicurus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“Don't fear the gods,”

“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”

“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”

“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the 'values,' with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your”

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...”

“Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.”

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.”