Quotes by Epicurus

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  • Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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  • Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
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  • He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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  • The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
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  • A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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  • Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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  • It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
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  • Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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  • The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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  • The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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