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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
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
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
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
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
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
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
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
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
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
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
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
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, 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
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
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

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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