"The time when most of you should withdraw……" — Epicurus

"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."

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136 Quotes by Epicurus

Epicurus has 136 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.
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not…
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life,…
Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in…
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he…
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

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More Crowd Quotes

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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to… — Rowan Atkinson
Never follow the crowd. — Bernard Baruch
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with… — Justin Bieber
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his… — Buffalo Bill
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take… — Larry Bird
I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap… — Emily Blunt
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. — Edward de Bono
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a… — Chris Brown
I draw from the crowd a lot. — Kobe Bryant

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