Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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 least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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