Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSThe time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
More Epicurus Quotes
-
-
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUS -
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUS -
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUS -
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.
EPICURUS -
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS -
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUS -
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
EPICURUS -
Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
EPICURUS -
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS -
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS -
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUS -
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUS -
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUS -
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUS -
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
EPICURUS







