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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace

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