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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Death 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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Concern Death Existence Life
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Declutter Desire Money Rich
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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
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
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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Death Life Philosophy
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look

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