More From Epicurus
- "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- "If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
- "It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
More In Death
- "I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."― William Butler Yeats
- "The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."― George Meredith
- "One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone."― Carlos Fuentes