You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSDeath, 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.
More Epicurus Quotes
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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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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Foolish 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.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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