The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
More Epicurus Quotes
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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