All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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