Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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