I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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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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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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