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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Epicurus
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Is a man unhappy because of exile? Then set before me one who is content in exile.”
Epicurus
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the acutest pain is there for a very short time.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come nor despair of it as quite certain not to come.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Epicurus
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“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
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus
“Enlightenment ideals are timeless, but their realization at any moment is the strenuous achievement of nations.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Poverty has a thousand causes, but wealth has only one.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
