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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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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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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