The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSYou 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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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