You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSDeath 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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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