The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUSIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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