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Quotations: Epicureanism

The 16 quotations from the philosophers tied to this movement, each linked to the position it expresses.

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Epicurus10 quotations

Bread and water confer the highest pleasure when one brings them to needy lips.
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Death is nothing to us; for so long as we exist, death is not with us, and when death comes, then we do not exist.
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Empty is the word of the philosopher that heals no human suffering.
fr. 221 Usener (Porphyry, Letter to Marcella, 31)
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Live unnoticed.
Fragment 551 Usener (lathe biosas)
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Natural justice is a compact of advantage, made to the end that men may neither harm one another nor be harmed.
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Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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Of the desires, some are natural and necessary, some natural but not necessary, and some neither natural nor necessary but arising from empty opinion.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of the blessed life.
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The blessed and incorruptible being neither has trouble itself nor causes trouble to another; hence it is moved neither by anger nor by favour.
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The totality of things is made of bodies and void.
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Lucretius6 quotations

Death, then, is nothing to us and touches us not at all, since the nature of the mind is held to be mortal.
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Nature cries aloud for nothing else but that pain be kept away from the body, and that the mind enjoy pleasant sensation, free of care and fear.
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Nothing is ever created out of nothing by divine power.
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Nothing was born in the body that we might use it: it is the thing born that creates the use.
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So much wrong could religion prompt.
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Whence comes this will wrested from the fates, by which we move wherever pleasure leads each on? The swerve breaks the decrees of fate.
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