Epicurus

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Biography : Greek philosopher *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -342 - Died: -270
Period:
3rd century BC
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Greece

Epicurus - Quotes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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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.
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We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

Babies and animals are the mirrors of nature.
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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.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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death

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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courage

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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difficulty

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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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
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