If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
EPICURUS
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
More Epicurus Quotes
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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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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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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