The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUSI have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSThe greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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.
EPICURUSBe moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSIt 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.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSThe noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
EPICURUSDon’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
EPICURUSDeath 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.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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