Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
EPICURUSDon’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSContented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
EPICURUSDeath, 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.
EPICURUSIf the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSWe 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.
EPICURUSI was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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