“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.” — Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” — Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epicurus
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the acutest pain is there for a very short time.” — Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.” — Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus