If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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. 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.
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