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.
EPICURUSFoolish 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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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 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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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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We 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.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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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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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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