Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSI have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
More Epicurus Quotes
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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 least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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