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.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
More Epicurus Quotes
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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