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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.

Epicurus

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUS

Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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
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
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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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
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
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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

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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