The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUSThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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