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.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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