When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUSIf you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSContented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUSThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUSIt 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.
EPICURUSDeath 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.
EPICURUSIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSI was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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