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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

Epicurus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
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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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
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
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray

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