Epicurus Quotes About Evil

• ¿Dios quiere evitar el mal, pero no puede? Entonces no es omnipotente. ¿Puede, pero no quiere? Entonces es malévolo. ¿Puede y quiere? Entonces, ¿de dónde viene el mal? ¿No puede ni quiere? Entonces, ¿por qué llamarlo Dios?

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  Dios, Espiritual, Religioso

• Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

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  Pain, Evil, Expectations

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.87, Lulu.com

• Si Dios escuchara las oraciones de los hombres, todos los hombres habrían perecido pronto, pues siempre están orando por el mal de unos contra otros.

  Epicuro

  Dios, Oración, Humildad

• O Dios quiere abolir el mal, y no puede; o puede y no quiere.
  Si quiere, pero no puede, es impotente.
  Si puede, pero no quiere, es malvado.
  Si, como dicen, Dios puede abolir el mal, y Dios realmente quiere hacerlo, ¿por qué hay mal en el mundo?

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  Maldad, Religión, Ateísmo

• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

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  Atheist, Evil, Doe

• When 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.

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  Pain, Teaching, Mean

  Epicuro (1964). "Cartas: Principios, doctrinas y dichos vaticanos traducidos, con introd. y notas, por Russel M. Geor. Indianápolis Merrill"

• If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

  Epicuro

  Powerful, Evil, Doe

• Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

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  Death, Evil, Dying

  Epicuro (1964). "Cartas: Principios, doctrinas y dichos vaticanos traducidos, con introd. y notas, por Russel M. Geor. Indianápolis Merrill"

• No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
  are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

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  Happiness, Pain, Mean

• An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

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  Men, Blessing, Ideas

• Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

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  Evil, Continuing, Subjects

  Epicuro (1964). "Cartas: Principios, doctrinas y dichos vaticanos traducidos, con introd. y notas, por Russel M. Geor. Indianápolis Merrill"

• There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

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  Evil, Feels

• Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

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  Believe, Evil, Enjoy Life

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.16, Lulu.com

• Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

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  Evil, Injustice, Offense

  Epicuro (1964). "Cartas: Principios, doctrinas y dichos vaticanos traducidos, con introd. y notas, por Russel M. Geor. Indianápolis Merrill"

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