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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

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
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
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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
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
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
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
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure

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