“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
― Epicurus
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“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”
― Epicurus
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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”
― Epicurus
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“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.”
― Epicurus
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“All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help”
― Epicurus
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“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”
― Epicurus
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“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
― Epicurus
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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus
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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.”
― Epicurus
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“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.”
― Epicurus |
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
― Epicurus
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“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
― Epicurus
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus
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“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”
― Epicurus
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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