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

Epicurus

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
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
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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
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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient

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