It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSTo eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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 better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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