Epicurus

Epicurus

"“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”"
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"“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”"
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"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."
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"“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”"
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"“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”"
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men."
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"Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come."
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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
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"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
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"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
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"We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it."
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"Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul."
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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"To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries."
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"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."
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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well."
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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it."
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