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Letter "E" » Epicurus Quotes
«Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.»
«It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.»
«Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?Then why call him God?»
«Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little»
Author: Epicurus
«It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.»
«So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter a»
Author: Epicurus
«Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.»
«Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist»
Author: Epicurus
«The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.»
Author: Epicurus
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