Epicurus Quotes and Quotations
The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little. Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well. The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good. To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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