Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
EPICURUSTo eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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 is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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