Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
More Epicurus Quotes
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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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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