When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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 folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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 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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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