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The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia QUOTES

The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia QUOTES

1 " Don't fear the gods,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure. "

― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

2 " What was most important in Epicurus’ philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us. "

― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

3 " I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary. "

― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

4 " 86. [Our aim is] neither to achieve the impossible, even by force, nor to maintain a theory which is in all respects similar either to our discussions on the ways of life or to our clarifications of other questions in physics, such as the thesis that the totality [of things] consists of bodies and intangible nature, and that the elements are atomic, and all such things as are consistent with the phenomena in only one way. This "

― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia