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.
EPICURUSIf you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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