Epicurus

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Epicurus?

  • → 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.
  • → Beauty will save the world.
  • → Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
  • → The best things carried to excess are wrong.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Epicurus.

  • → It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
  • → To travel is to live.
  • → Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
  • → Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Epicurus.

  • → The test of any man lies in action.
  • → Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
  • → Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
  • → If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Epicurus. Which one?

  • → The test of any man lies in action.
  • → Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
  • → It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
  • → It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Epicurus?

  • → Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
  • → The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
  • → Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
  • → When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Epicurus?

  • → Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
  • → It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
  • → The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
  • → If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Epicurus.

  • → There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
  • → He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
  • → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
  • → A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Epicurus. Which one?

  • → While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
  • → The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
  • → We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
  • → A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
  
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