Prevent Evil 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.
• Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and…
• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
• 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.
• Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it…
• What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
• Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

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