All Epicurus Quotes
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
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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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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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus in
Death
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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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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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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus
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