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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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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
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.
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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Declutter Desire Money Rich
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
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
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
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.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble

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