Epicurus Quotes
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If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
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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.
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Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
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The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
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Do everything like someone is gazing at you.
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I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
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But the universe is infinite.
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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.
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If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .
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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.
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The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
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Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.
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Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
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There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.
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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.
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