If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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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 fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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