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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

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
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Declutter Desire Money Rich
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
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
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
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind

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