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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Epicurus

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
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

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