Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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 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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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