Epicurus
Epicurus
Epicuruswas an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
pain causes foolish
If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.
goal pleasure natural
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
understanding desire please
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
what-if desire ifs
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.
death military long
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
pain giving pleasure
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.