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.
EPICURUSJustice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
More Epicurus Quotes
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Death, 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.
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