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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

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
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
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
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
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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
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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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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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
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
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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

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