If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSContented poverty is an honorable estate.
More Epicurus Quotes
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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 time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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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 fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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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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