If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSWe 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.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSI was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUSFoolish 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.
EPICURUSOf all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUSDo 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.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUSWe 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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