Epicurus Quotes

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• The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and…
• Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
• Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor…
• Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
• For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.
• All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
• There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
• We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult…
• Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.
• I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor…
• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
• 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…
• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
• If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
• Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
• Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
• It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
• 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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