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Quotes by Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."
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"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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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 things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most."
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"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
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"He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hope"
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"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."
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"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."
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"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed."
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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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