Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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