Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSDo 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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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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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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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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