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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.

Epicurus

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
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
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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
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
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
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
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
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
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
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind

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