Quotations by Epicurus

Bread and water confer the highest pleasure when one brings them to needy lips.

• On Bodily pleasures, their position: Asceticism60%

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.

• On Death, their position: Freeing ourselves from the fear100%

Empty is the word of the philosopher that heals no human suffering.

• On The point of philosophy, their position: Transforming oneself100%

Live unnoticed.

• On Belonging, their position: Communitarianism and patriotism60%

Natural justice is a compact of advantage, made to the end that men may neither harm one another nor be harmed.

• On The origin of the social bond, their position: Contractualism90%

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of a whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.

• On Nature of love, their position: Philia (friendship)90%

Of the desires, some are natural and necessary, some natural but not necessary, and some neither natural nor necessary but arising from empty opinion.

• On Relation to desire, their position: Reasoned selection85%

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of the blessed life.

• On The highest good, their position: Hedonism90%

The blessed and incorruptible being neither has trouble itself nor causes trouble to another; hence it is moved neither by anger nor by favour.

• On Existence of God, their position: Theism65%

The totality of things is made of bodies and void.

• On Nature of reality, their position: Materialism100%