Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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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.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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