THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET Home Biographical Index Reading List Search ... Authors by Date TOPICS: A B C D ... Z PEOPLE: A B C D ... Z EPICURUS Greek philosopher (341 BC - 271 BC) CHECK READING LIST (2) A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful and more honorable to give than to receive. Benevolence A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Freedom A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. Fate All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it. Self-love Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Death Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency. Freedom Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. Philosophy Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. | |
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