Prevent Men 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.
• There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by…
• Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

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