It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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 has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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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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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