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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
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
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
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind

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