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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Epicurus

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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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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
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
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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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Declutter Desire Money Rich
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
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
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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Friendship Happiness Important Life

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

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