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

Epicurus

Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
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
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
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
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men

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

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