It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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.
EPICURUSYou don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSVain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUSOf all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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.
EPICURUSDeath, 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.
EPICURUSI never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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