Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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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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