"Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the……" — Epicurus
"Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach."
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Epicurus
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136 Quotes by Epicurus
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not…
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life,…
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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in…
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he…
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
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More Always Beyond Quotes
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We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
— Rae Armantrout
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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
— Mary Ritter Beard
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our…
— Thomas Merton
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Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all…
— Ernest Kurtz
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Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
— Michelle Sagara
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The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far…
— Francis Frangipane
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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly,…
— Chinonso Atuigwe
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