It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUSOf all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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