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

Epicurus

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
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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
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.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
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
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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

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

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