If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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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.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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