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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
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 not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
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
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
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
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer

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