“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epicurus
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the acutest pain is there for a very short time.” — Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.” — Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus