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Epicurus

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

Approve Be Yourself Crowd
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.
EPICURUS

Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUS

Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUS

Abstract Compact Justice Men
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUS

Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUS

Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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.
EPICURUS

Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS

Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUS

Concern Death Existence Life
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUS

Art Die Life Live
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUS

Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUS

Friendship Happiness Important Life
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUS

Care Death Existence One Liner
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
EPICURUS

Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.

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