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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

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• A man who causes fear cannot be
  free from fear.

  Epicurus

  Men, Causes

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• In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Gains

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

  Epicurus

  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

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  Pain, Choices, Soul

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• Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

  Epicurus

  Wine, Order, Joy

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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

  Appreciate, Atheism, Crowds

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• The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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• It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

  Epicurus

  Men, Chance, Belief

  "Dancing into old age" by Daniel Klein, www.cnn.com. March 16, 2013.

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• The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Giving, Pleasure

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• I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

  Epicurus

  Care, I Care

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• Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Real, Use

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• No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
  are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Pain, Mean

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• The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  Epicurus

  Sin, Salvation

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• Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

  Epicurus

  Men, Civilization, Community

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• The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

  Epicurus

  Men, Acquisition, Riches

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• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

  Epicurus

  Men, Thinking, Unhappy

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• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

  Epicurus

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

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• He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

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  Needs, Riches, Enjoy

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• A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

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  Fate, Night, Tyrants

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• He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

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  Littles, Enough

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• Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Men, Medicine

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

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  Philosophical, Loss, Envy

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