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.
EPICURUSFoolish 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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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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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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