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Men Quotes by Epicurus
- 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…
- It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
- Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
- Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
- It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and…
- Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured…
- What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
- 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.
- 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…
- Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
- There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
- The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
- 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…
- If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
- Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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