Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSThe noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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