To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUSDon’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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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