If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus
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  2. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

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More Quotes By Epicurus
  1. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

  2. He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

  3. Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to...

  4. Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

  5. Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

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