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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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 folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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