To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUSBe moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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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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