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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.

Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
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 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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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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