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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Epicurus

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
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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Friendship Happiness Important Life
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Absence Death Element Sensation
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
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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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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