Epicurus

Greek philosopher

founder and eponym of Epicureanism

preached pleasure as sole good and goal of morality

• "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
• "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."
• "Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."