Tag: Epicurus
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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.
Epicurus
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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.
Epicurus
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
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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.
Epicurus
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
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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.
Epicurus
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus