You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSDeath 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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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 folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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