Quotes by Epicurus
3 quotes by Epicurus (died 270 BC), taken from Letter to Menoeceus. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Letter to Menoeceus
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“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
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“We must exercise ourselves in the 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.”
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“Life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly apprehended that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live.”