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.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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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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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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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