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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

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
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
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
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
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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
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
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
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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 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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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

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