Epicurus Quotes
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural…
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is…
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control…
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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will…
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation…
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.
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There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into…
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
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Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining…
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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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