To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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, 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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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