He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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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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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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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 a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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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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