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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.

Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Concern Death Existence Life
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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.
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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Absence Death Element Sensation
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf

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