Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSContented poverty is an honorable estate.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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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.
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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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