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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.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Causes, Foolish

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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.

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  Giving, Earth, Fertility

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

  Epicurus

  Life, Pleasure, Ends

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

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

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  Men, Civilization, Community

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

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  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

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

  Epicurus

  Carpe Diem, Fool, Faults

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

  Epicurus

  Art, Philosophy, Blessed

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• Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

  Epicurus

  Littles, Sufficiency, Persons

  Epicurus (1963). “The philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines, and parallel passages from Lucretius”

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• The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

  Epicurus

  Infinity, Wealth, Easy

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

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  Justice, Three, Fortitude

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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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• The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

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• Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

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  Men, Mad, Action

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

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• Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

  Epicurus

  Where You Are, Afraid Of Death

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• The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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  Philosophical, Crowds, Should

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• To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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  Lions, Drink

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