If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSThe time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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.
EPICURUSFoolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
EPICURUSDeath is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSTo eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUSI never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUSEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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