do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not
EpicurusTags: epicurus
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
EpicurusDeath is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
EpicurusTags: philosophical
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EpicurusIt is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
EpicurusTags: self-assuredness epicurus
При всяко желание си поставяй следните въпроси: какво ще стане, ако пожеланото от мен се осъществи и какво – ако не се осъществи
EpicurusAccustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are.
EpicurusTags: happiness philosophy death
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusTags: self-reliance folly
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
EpicurusŻyjąc o chlebie i wodzie, przyjemności ciała wywołują we mnie grozę, gardzę luksusowymi rozkoszami, nie ze względu na nie, ale na niewygody z nimi związane.
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