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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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. 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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational

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