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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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