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.
EPICURUSVain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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