25 result(s) for Epicurus Quotes About How We React.
"We must free ourselves from the prison of routine and approach life with a fresh, questioning mind."
"It is not the things themselves that disturb men, but their judgments about these things."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing."
"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."
"It is better to be unhappy in freedom than happy in chains."
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"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when death does come, we no longer exist."
"The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain."
"We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink."
"Of all the things that wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasurably."
"Pleasure is the beginning and the root of good life."
"The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom."
"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."
"It's silly to say that you fear death because you're afraid of what it will feel like. Death doesn't feel like anything - if you're dead."
"I never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know."
"The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine needing are infinite and you will never be satisfied."
"Justice was never a thing by itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever, it is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
"By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul."
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"He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to obtain what removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete. So he has no need of things which involve struggle."
"Live unknown."
"Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
"Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little."
