Epicurus — "The time when we are best able to enjoy ourselves is when we have least need of …"

"It is better to be unhappy in a rational way than happy in an irrational way."

"I was never anxious to please the mob, for I have not learned what pleases it."

"We are born once and cannot be born twice, but for all eternity must be no more. But you, who are not master of tomorrow, postpone your happiness. Life is wasted by delaying, and each one of us dies w…"

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated."

"The limit of a pleasant life is not exceeded by him who has put an end to the pain of want and has arranged his life to be safe from all disturbance."