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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.

Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
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
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
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
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray

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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