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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Epicurus

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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 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
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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 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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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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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
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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The 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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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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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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