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.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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