Quote of Epicurus - We must then meditate on the...
Biography - Epicurus:
Greek philosopher
*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -342 - Died: -270
Period:
3rd century BC
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -342 - Died: -270
Period:
3rd century BC
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.
Note
Source: Letter to Menoeceus
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about happiness:
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Quotes for: meditation
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
The really great men in the history of the world have all either known how to meditate or have unconsciously found their way to the place to which meditation leads us.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Epicurus also said...
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