51 ordspråk av Epicurus

Epicurus

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Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Det är möjligt att skydda sig mot andra olyckor, men när det gäller döden lever vi människor i en stad utan murar.

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

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly."

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter a

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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

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