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Epicharmus~Evenus Quotations

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Evenus, Ancient Greek Poet

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenus, Ancient Greek Poet

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Evenus, Ancient Greek Poet

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Deciderius Erasmus

Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go.

Epitaph

Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

Heest man.

Epitaph

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

Epicharmus

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Euripedes

t is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Euripedes

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripedes

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Euripedes

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There is nothing to fear from the gods. There is nothing to fear from death. Pain can be endured. Happiness can be attained.

Epicuris

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

Eustachius

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.

Etienne de La Boetie

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Epicurus

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

Epicharmus of Kos

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Judgement, not passion should prevail.

Epicharmus

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

Etienne de La Boetie

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

Fools are without number.

Desiderius Erasmus

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little.

Epicurus
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

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