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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Epicurus

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Concern Death Existence Life
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
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
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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Death Life Philosophy
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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
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
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
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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