Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
EPICURUSVain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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