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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.

Epicurus

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUS

Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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.
EPICURUS

Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUS

Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUS

Charity Donation Giving never Positive
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUS

Death Life Philosophy
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Look
Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
EPICURUS

Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
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.
EPICURUS

Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS

God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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

Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUS

Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction

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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