Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

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

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

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

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

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

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.