Epicurus

Epicurus: It is impossible...

Epicurus: It is impossible...

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live...

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Epicurus: It is not...

Epicurus: It is not...

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help...

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Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the...

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Epicurus: Misfortune seldom intrudes...

Epicurus: Misfortune seldom intrudes...

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the...

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Epicurus: A free life...

Epicurus: A free life...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...

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Epicurus: It is possible...

Epicurus: It is possible...

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city...

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Epicurus: The time when...

Epicurus: The time when...

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a...

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Epicurus: Of all things...

Epicurus: Of all things...

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of...

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Epicurus: The greater the...

Epicurus: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

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Epicurus: I have never...

Epicurus: I have never...

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not...

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Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Epicurus: Only the just...

Epicurus: Only the just...

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Source: fragment
-- Epicurus, ( BC...

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Epicurus: If thou wilt...

Epicurus: If thou wilt...

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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Epicurus: Justice . ....

Epicurus: Justice . ....

Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Source: 'Principal...

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Epicurus: So death, the...

Epicurus: So death, the...

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when...

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