Epicurus

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. ”

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. ”

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ”

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ”

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ”

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. ”

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. ”

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ”

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. ”

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. ”