Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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.
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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUSJustice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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.
EPICURUSWe 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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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.
EPICURUSDo 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.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUSThe greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
EPICURUSHe who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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