I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
More Epicurus Quotes
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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