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

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Loss, Envy

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• The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

  Epicurus

  Future, Men, Independence

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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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• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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  Life, Easy, Possession

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• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

  Epicurus

  Friendship, Relationship, Leadership

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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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  Lying, Perspective, Fearless

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• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

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  Carpe Diem, Fool, Faults

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
  If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
  If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
  If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

  Epicurus

  Evil, Religion, Atheism

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

  Epicurus

  Men, Justice, Mind

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• Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Stranger, Pleasure, Epicurean

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• The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

  Epicurus

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

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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

  Confidence, Power, Men

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

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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

  Pursue, Absent, Seeing

  Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

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• A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Earth, Fertility

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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

  Understanding, Desire, Please

  Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

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• If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

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  Pain, Causes, Foolish

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

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  Men, Able, Impossible

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  Epicurus

  Death, Life And Death, Death Anniversary

  "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.

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• If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Freedom, Philosophy

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• The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

  Epicurus

  Inspirational, History, Greek

  "Epicurus's Morals".

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• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

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  Life, Pleasure, Ends

  "Briefing" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

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  Art, Philosophy, Blessed

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• Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

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  Worry, Easy, Endure

  Epicurus, Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson “The Epicurus Reader”, Hackett Publishing

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