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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...
It is not...
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help...
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...
Misfortune seldom intrudes...
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the...
A free life...
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...
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...
The time when...
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a...
Of all things...
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of...
The greater the...
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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...
Nothing is enough...
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
Source: In
Only the just...
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
Source: fragment
-- Epicurus, ( BC...
If thou wilt...
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Justice . ....
Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Source: 'Principal...
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...