The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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