All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUSJustice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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