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Epicurus

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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
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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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
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
Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Absence Death Element Sensation
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
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
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind

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