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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.

Epicurus

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
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
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Friendship Happiness Important Life
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.
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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
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
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure

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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