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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2319/">Quotes by <em>Epicurus</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Epicurus (Epikouros) (born Samos 341 BCdied Athens, 270 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher who was the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."

Epicurus · Abundance · 2 fans >>
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

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"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Epicurus · Friends and Friendship · 1 fans >>
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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

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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 you only hoped for."

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

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"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."

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

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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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