The foolβs life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True pleasure comes from removing pain and discomfort from our lives.
This quote by Epicurus highlights the philosophical idea that the highest form of pleasure is not just the pursuit of enjoyment or luxury, but rather the absence of suffering and distress. It suggests that achieving true happiness involves minimizing pain and challenges in our lives, leading to a more fulfilling existence.
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In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion about finding inner peace, one might quote Epicurus to emphasize the importance of reducing suffering.
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All quotes βAccustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.
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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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