Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSThe greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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 greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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