Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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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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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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