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.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
More Epicurus Quotes
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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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, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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