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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
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
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Friendship Happiness Important Life

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

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