Living Wisely Quotes by Epicurus

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Epicurus has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by…
• Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and…
• Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
• Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
• Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will…
• Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
• A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought…
• When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted…
• Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
• It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

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