"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly." - Epicurus

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“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly.”

Epicurus connects the pleasant life with moral and intellectual virtue.

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

— Epicurus

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

— Epicurus

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

— Epicurus

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

— Epicurus

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus