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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Epicurus

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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
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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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Death Life Philosophy
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
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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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
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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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
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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Concern Death Existence Life
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

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