Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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