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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.

Epicurus

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUS

Charity Donation Giving never Positive
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUS

Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUS

Death Life Philosophy
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUS

Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUS

Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUS

Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
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.
EPICURUS

Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUS

Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS

Compact Harm Justice Kind
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS

God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
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.
EPICURUS

Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUS

Care Death Existence One Liner
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUS

Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUS

Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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.
EPICURUS

Absence Death Element Sensation
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf

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