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  1. 1

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

    Epicurus
    Life and Living
  2. 2

    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.

    Epicurus
    Gratitude
  3. 3

    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
    Popularity
  4. 4

    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
    Desire
  5. 5

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

    Epicurus
    Happiness
  6. 6

    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.

    Epicurus
    Happiness
  7. 7

    It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

    Epicurus
    Death and Dying
  8. 8

    Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

    Epicurus
    Misfortunes
  9. 9

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

    Epicurus
    Abundance
  10. 10

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

    Epicurus
    Friends and Friendship
  11. 11

    Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

    Epicurus
    Skill
  12. 12

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

    Epicurus
    Death and Dying
  13. 13

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

    Epicurus
    Masses
  14. 14

    the wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to produce; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity

    Epicurus
  15. 15

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

    Epicurus
    Justice
  16. 16

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

    Epicurus
    Friends and Friendship

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