He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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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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