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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.

Epicurus

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
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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
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
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
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
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
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 greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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
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

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