The foolβs life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Connect with others before focusing on material needs.
This quote by Epicurus emphasizes the importance of companionship and social interactions over mere physical sustenance. It suggests that the joy of sharing experiences with others, such as eating and drinking together, holds greater value than the act of eating and drinking itself.
Themes
CompanionshipFoodFriendshipSharingExperience
In practice
Example use cases
During a toast at a dinner party to highlight the joy of good company.
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All quotes βAccustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.
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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
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