If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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 have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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