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

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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
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
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
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live

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

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