It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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