If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSOf all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSI never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSThe time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EPICURUSHe who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
EPICURUSThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUSWe 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.
EPICURUSContented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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