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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Epicurus

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
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
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.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
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.
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Absence Death Element Sensation
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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

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