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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

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
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUS

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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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 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
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction

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