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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

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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
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
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Death Life Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner

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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