I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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