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.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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 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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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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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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