When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSDo 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.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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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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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, 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 folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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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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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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