Epicurus Mean Quotations

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.