The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
More Epicurus Quotes
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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