He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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