The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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 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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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