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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.

Epicurus

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
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
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

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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