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Epicurus

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
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science

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