If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSThe 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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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