There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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 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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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 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 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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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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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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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