Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
EpicurusThe words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.
EpicurusWe must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
EpicurusThere are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.
EpicurusWhen we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
Epicurus