You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSIf the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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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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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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