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Epicurus
Greek
341 BC
Philosopher
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
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Kind
Justice
Harm
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus
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Know
Never
Crowd
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
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Because
Life
Many
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
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Them
Never
Did
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
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Life
Man
His
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Epicurus
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