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61 " The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future. "
― Epicurus
62 " We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it. "
63 " Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness. "
64 " To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. "
65 " The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. "
66 " All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help "
67 " The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing.If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent.Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist? "
68 " Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. "
69 " The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts—in brief, peace of mind. "
― Epicurus , The Art of Happiness
70 " Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. "
71 " Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. "
72 " I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. "
73 " I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind. "
74 " The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom. "
75 " We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. "
76 " If a little is not enough for you, nothing is. "
77 " Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship. "
78 " Fools are tormented by the memory of former evils; wise men have the delight of renewing in grateful remembrance the blessings of the past. We have the power both to obliterate our misfortunes in an almost perpetual forgetfulness and to summon up pleasant and agreeable memories of our successes. But when we fix our mental vision closely on the events of the past, then sorrow or gladness ensues according as these were evil or good. "
― Epicurus , Stoic Six Pack 3 - The Epicureans: On The Nature of Things, Letters and Principal Doctrines of Epicurus, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, The Garden of Epicurus and Stoics vs Epicureans (Illustrated)
79 " It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth. "
80 " What was most important in Epicurus’ philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us. "
― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia