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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.

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.
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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
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
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
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.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Declutter Desire Money Rich
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind

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