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Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring. — Thornton Wilder

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary. — Epicurus

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

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. — Epicurus

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied. — Epicurus

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow. — Epicurus

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles. — Epicurus

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little — Epicurus

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. — Epicurus

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

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. — Epicurus

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful. — Epicurus

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help — Epicurus

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius

A man who causes fear cannot be
free from fear. — Epicurus

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. — Lucretius

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist — Epicurus

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. — Epicurus

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. — Epicurus

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. — Epicurus

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal. — Epicurus

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky ... it is a piece cut off from the infinite. — Epicurus

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity — Epicurus

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. — Epicurus

He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough. — Epicurus

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously. — Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. — Epicurus

By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It — Epicurus

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. — Epicurus

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. — Luke Slattery

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor. — Epicurus

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not? — Epicurus

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus

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

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. — Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. — Epicurus

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters. — Epicurus

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city. — Epicurus

God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist. — Epicurus

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. — Epicurus

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

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

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery. — Robert Frost

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness. — Epicurus

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others. — Epicurus

Do everything like someone is gazing at you. — Epicurus

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. — Epicurus

Contented poverty is an honorable estate. — Epicurus

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number ... are borne on far out into space. — Epicurus

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth. — Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. — Epicurus

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little — Epicurus

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom. — Epicurus

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so. — Epicurus

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good. — Epicurus

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. — Epicurus

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured. — Epicurus

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth . — Epicurus

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. — Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. — Epicurus

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. — Epicurus

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. — Epicurus

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

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

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. — Epicurus

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense. — Epicurus

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back. — Epicurus

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. — Epicurus

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

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? — Epicurus

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

Death means nothing to us — Epicurus

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind. — Epicurus

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. — Epicurus

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. — Seneca The Younger

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. — Epicurus

Justice ... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. — Epicurus

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. — Epicurus

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one. — Osho

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

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

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead ... because they are dead. — Epicurus

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries. — Epicurus

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. — Epicurus

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. — Epicurus

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

Virtue consisteth of three parts,
temperance, fortitude, and justice. — Epicurus

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist. — Epicurus

panta rei ("All things are in flux"), — Epicurus

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. — Epicurus

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one. — Epicurus

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. — Epicurus

Live your life without attracting attention. — Epicurus

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another. — Epicurus