51 ordspråk av Epicurus
Epicurus
 Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. |
| Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. |
| 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 |
| The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. |
| The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as the present |
| The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist? |
| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. |
| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. |
| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. |
| The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
| The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully |
| The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. |
| The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. |
| There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men |
| There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured |
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