Epicurus Quotes

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• What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
• Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken,…
• I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
• What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
• Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
• The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
• It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his…
• Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
• He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.
• Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing…
• Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if…
• Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.
• Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
• Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them…
• There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
• Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
• Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon…
• A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
• The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

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