Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUSIf the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
More Epicurus Quotes
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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