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.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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