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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with E >> Quotes By Epicurus |
| Quote #1: | "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it." |
| Quote #2: | "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." |
| Quote #3: | "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." |
| Quote #4: | "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." |
| Quote #5: | "In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most." |
| Quote #6: | "The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." |
| Quote #7: | "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." |
| Quote #8: | "We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need." |
| Quote #9: | "He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others." |
| Quote #10: | "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." |
| Quote #11: | "The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully." |
| Quote #12: | "Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily." |
| Quote #13: | "Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed." |
| Quote #14: | "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not." |
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