The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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