All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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