If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSJustice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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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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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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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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