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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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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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
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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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
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
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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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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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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