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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.

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
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
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
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
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
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
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure

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