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81 " Orang bodoh tidak puas dengan semua yang dimilikinya.Mereka menyusahkan hati dengan semua yang tidak dimilikinya. "
― Epicurus
82 " We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. "
83 " if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity "
― Epicurus , The Art of Happiness
84 " If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich. "
85 " We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing. "
86 " على الشّاب ألا يتأخّر عن التفلسف , و على الشّيخ ألا يملّ من تعاطي الفلسفة ; ... إنّ من يزعم أنّه لم يحن بعد الأوان للتفلسف , أو أنّه قد فات الأوان , لهوّ شبيه بمن يقول إنّ وقت السّعادة لم يحن بعد أو أنّه قد فات . "
87 " هل الله يريد أن يمنع الشر ولكنه لا يستطيع؟ إذن فهو ليس كلي القدرة.هل هو قادر على منع الشر ولكنه لا يريد ؟ إذن فهو خبيث وشرير النزعة.هل هو قادر ويريد منع الشر؟ إذن من أين أتى الشر؟هل هو غير قادر ولا يريد منع الشر؟ إذن لماذا نطلق عليه إله؟ "
88 " With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness. "
89 " The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle. "
90 " Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful. "
91 " الحق الطبيعي تعاقد نفعي على ألا يسيئ أحد إلى الاخر "
92 " when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body. "
93 " It is not possible for a man to banish all fear of the essential questions of life unless he understands the nature of the universe and unless he banishes all consideration that the fables told about the universe could be true. Therefore a man cannot enjoy full happiness, untroubled by turmoil, unless he acts to gain knowledge of the nature of things. "
94 " I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary. "
― Epicurus , The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
95 " إذا كان الألم حادا فإنه سريع الزوال ، و إذا كان بطيء الزوال فإنه غير قاسي "
96 " The risings and settings of the sun, the moon, and the other heavenly bodies may come about from the lighting up and quenching of their fires…; for nothing in our sensory experience runs counter to this hypothesis. Or the said effects may be caused by the emergence of these bodies from a point above the earth and again by the earth’s position in front of them; for nothing in our sensory experience is against this.45 Here two alternative explanations of “risings and settings” are offered; both are of equal value and equally true, since neither is contradicted by anything in our experience. On the contrary, we have all seen fires die down from lack of fuel, and lights obscured or blacked out by objects coming in front of them. "
97 " Meditate then, on all these things, and on those things which are related to them, both day and night, and both alone and with like-minded companions. For if you will do this, you will never be disturbed while asleep or awake by imagined fears, but you will live like a god among men. For a man who lives among immortal blessings is in no respect like a mortal being. "
98 " Jangan iri kepada siapa pun, karena orang baik tidak layak diirikan.Sedangkan orang jahat, semakin mereka makmur, semakin mereka merusak diri sendiri. "
99 " Live in obscurity--lathe biōsas (λάθε βιώσας) "
100 " Kesenangan tidak jahat, tetapi cara menghasilkan sebagian kesenangan itu ada yang mengakibatkan masalah yang besarnya berlipat-lipat daripada kesenangan yang diperoleh. "