Epicurus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
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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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“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
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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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“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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“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?”
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“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
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“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
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“The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.”
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“In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.”
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“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”
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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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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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“He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
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“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”
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“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
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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 God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”
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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
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“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
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“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.”
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“Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.”
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“Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.”
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“A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.”
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“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
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“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.”
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“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.”
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“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”
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“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
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