All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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