Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.Epicurus
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Virtue consisteth of three parts, - temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
A strict belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery on the other hand, there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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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
Epicurus
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