Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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