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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.

Epicurus

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
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Concern Death Existence Life
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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
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
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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.
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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind

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