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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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
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
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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
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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Friendship Happiness Important Life

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