"Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds……" — Epicurus
"Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little"
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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 Finds Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once…
— Paul Auster
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
— Francis Bacon
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
— Honore de Balzac
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
— Annie Besant
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