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Några intressanta citat av Epicurus/Epikuros (grekisk filosof för er som inte visste det)
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
"It is folly for a man to pray to the Gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
"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."
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Och naturligtvis det klassiska teodicéproblemet i form av The Riddle of Epicurus/Epicurean paradox:
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
"It is folly for a man to pray to the Gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
"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."
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Och naturligtvis det klassiska teodicéproblemet i form av The Riddle of Epicurus/Epicurean paradox:
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
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