We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Death 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.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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