It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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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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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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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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.
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